Posted on 05/05/2016 6:40:51 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Bush 41 and 43 REFUSE to endorse Trump: Former Presidents join a growing list of top Republicans who will not back their party's presumptive nominee
Both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush will not back Donald Trump A number of Republicans say they will not back the presumptive nominee Trump has all but secured the nomination after Cruz & Kasich dropped out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump has the 'opportunity and the obligation' to unite the GOP Former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush will not endorse Donald Trump, their spokesmen have announced.
Presidents 41 and 43 said they would not back Trump, despite him becoming the presumptive nominee after his two Republican rivals dropped out of the race for the White House.
Both of the former commanders-in-chief joined a growing list of prominent Republicans who have refused to back Trump's run for the presidency.
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You are correct in dating the last violent revolution to the unsuccessful attempt of the Southern states to leave the union. However, there have been two nonviolent, but profound revolutions since that time. The first dates to the rise of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. The earlier Progressive Era set up the mechanism for Federal expansion, but New Deal legislation and the subsequent World War II established the massive welfare/warfare states that has grown since that time, with the only, partial interruption since 1933 being in Reagan's first term.
The second was the cultural revolution, that is, the rise of cultural Marxism, as epitomized by the philosophy of Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, and the Frankfurt School. The groundwork for this takeover was laid around the turn of the last century by John Dewey and his "progressive" education and the "higher criticism" movement in mainline Protestantism, which was the de facto state religion of pre-World War II America. Then the Great Depression devastated the Yankee elite that had dominated the country since Appomattox. A vacuum was created that the replacement elite trained by the influences of Dewey, Marcuse, and others filled.
Thus, we have had a cultural shift away from Christian and traditional values unprecedented in our history. Baby Boomers and Generation Xers who decry the decay echo the GI and Silent Generations' complaints during the hippie/Vietnam era, and the Lost and Missionary Generations disgust with the 1940s and 1950s.
I don't know if Donald Trump can be the catalyst for reversing nearly a century of institutional and cultural decline. Hopefully so.
You’re welcome, Art. Feel free to return the favor if you see me needing help.
Hmmm....So they join HILLARY in NOT ENDORSING Trump?
The times are changing. Take note, young conservatives. This is truly a moment to remember.
Only Trump has to sign loyalty to the Republicans but the Republicans do not!
Does that about summarize it?
They and we were lied to.
They and their families paid the ultimate sacrifice and pain for the Bushco lies.
A lot of sad/painful realities and facts in your reply!
Thanks for posting them.
That is the truth.
When Trump starts hurling blame for accumulated debt and wasteful spending, and much of it hits on the Bushes, disaffected dems might look at him again.
There probably hundreds of photos of Bush Senior and W having a great time with Bill Clintoon. Go to the link below and realize how we have been conned by Bushco and the Clintoon crime family.
Old buddies, Bubba Clintoon, Bush senior and George Wallace.
Bingo! Hillary keeps it in the family!
GOOD
Unfortunately, Newt did say that on Hannity’s radio show on Wednesday.
Newt went on to say how the rest of the world would accept Jeb as Secretary of State, how focused and smart Jeb is, etc.
Newt continued on about Jeb’s alleged virtues as a possible Secretary of State. Good God.
Who needs these GOPe? (ROP..yeah)
Circling the wagons around ¡Jeb!’s butthurt. Even so, it will suck to be him at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
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