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.
One of Bush’s biggest mistakes was keeping anybody from the previous administration, but he was such a fool about “reaching across the aisle”...
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He wasn’t a fool if he actually wanted to lose to them, which he did.
It does make him a rotten prince of the Uniparty.