I would say BOTH Bush and Trump are NE RINOs according to the way the term is tossed around here. I don’t know that being shipped off to Andover at 13, then on to Yale and Harvard, fits the profile of most folks ‘raised in Midland/Houston, TX.’
FYI, Trump was neither born in nor spent his entire life in “New York, New York.” You are obviously not familiar with New York City. Trump was born in Jamaica, (Queens) NY, where he was raised. That is a 30 minutes subway ride but light years away from where he lives today in New York, (Manhattan) New York.
Jamaica’s demographics have changed dramatically since Trump was raised there, but it was a middle-working class neighborhood through the 60s. It was home to many NYPD, FDNY, shop keepers, salesmen and the like. As I understand it, Trump’s father did well in land development, but nowhere near the level to which The Donald has taken his enterprises. And, Trump certainly does not come from the same Northeast Elite that the Bushes and Pierces do. Not by a long shot.
I give a ton of credit to George and Barbara Bush for leaving CT to settle in TX. But let’s not pretend they are just ‘down home’ folks. They are not, and neither is their son, tho he is more so than they.
Bush has been staunchly pro-life, pro-2A and pro-marriage from the get go. His last 3 years in office were a financial nightmare.
Trump grew up in Jamaica Estates and not in Jamaica. Jaimaica Estates was and still is upper class.