Exactly right. And, as I think most understand, that's exactly why GWB's poll numbers were in the tank by the time he was in his last few years as president. The Left always hated him and Conservatives began to despise him for being a quintessential statist who NEVER fought back and who NEVER defended Conservative principles. Of course once GWB was out of office we say his spouse and his daughters come out in favor of most of the Left's core causes and values.
So yeah, GWB was total establishment and, praise God, Trump is a wrecking ball.
GWB may have been “establishment,” but one of the things that ruined his presidency and sabotaged him at every step of the way, including in the good things he wanted to do, was the “Deep State,” particularly in the intelligence services.
We’ve forgotten it now, but he - and everybody in his administration - was under attack by them from day one. They got a few scalps (Scooter Libby, for example, and their misleading on Iraq), and kept making noises about going after GWB. They relentlessly impeded his every move and undercut him even internationally.
Getting rid of these people at State and in the intelligence services is long overdue. One of Bush’s biggest mistakes was keeping anybody from the previous administration, but he was such a fool about “reaching across the aisle” that he wanted to prove how non-partisan he was by acting like a trusting fool.
Trump needs to fire these and keep on firing till they’re all gone.
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