George W. Bush says the Republican Party has a shot at future elections if it curbs its 'white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism'
ydzhanova@businessinsider.com (Yelena Dzhanova)
Former President George W. Bush expressed optimism that the Republican Party will "govern again."
He said it depends on whether the GOP can distance itself from "white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism."
Republicans, he suggested, need to embrace the traditional values the party was founded on.
Former President George W. Bush said he believes the Republican Party will win in future elections if its members embrace traditional ideals and curb the "white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism."
Asked about the state of the Republican Party, Bush told "The Dispatch Podcast" he believes there's potential to win in the upcoming midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election.
"I think Republicans will have a second chance to govern because I believe that the Biden administration is a uniting factor, particularly on the fiscal side of things," he said.
But the Republican Party will not win by representing ideals tied to white supremacy, he suggested.
"If the Republican Party stands for exclusivity - it used to be country clubs, now it's white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism - then it's not going to win anything," Bush said.
Bush was elaborating on a question about whether he believed the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
A recent poll found that 60% of Republicans believe President Joe Biden won the 2020 election because of widespread voter fraud, a baseless claim that former President Donald Trump and his allies spouted for months.
The poll, conducted by Reuters and Ipsos and published last month, said Republicans also want Trump to run for president in 2024.
"Republicans have their own version of reality," John Geer, public opinion expert at Vanderbilt University, told Reuters. "It is a huge problem. Democracy requires accountability and accountability requires evidence."
Bush said in the podcast interview he does not believe the election was stolen from Trump.
Other Republicans have also predicted a GOP win in the future elections - and plan to use Trump's help to get there.
Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier this year said he wants to leverage former Trump's influence to ensure that the Republican party takes back the House and Senate in 2022.
In an interview with Politico, Graham said he'll meet with Trump to discuss the future of the GOP and his role in it.
"I'm going to try and convince him that we can't get there without you, but you can't keep the Trump movement going without the GOP united," Graham said on Friday.
"If we come back in 2022, then, it's an affirmation of your policies," he said. "But if we lose again in 2022, the narrative is going to continue that not only you lost the White House, but the Republican Party is in a bad spot."
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#1: WWG1WWA To: BorisY (#0)
Yeah, I voted for him the first Presidential election. Within 2 weeks, I knew I'd made a mistake when he gave Iran the money we were withholding to use as leverage against Iran's tyrant! (Said so on FR & it got me banned.) I voted 3rd party his next election.
He is, in fact, a Globalist traitor, & an AINO!
WWG1WWA posted on 2021-05-03 05:15:22 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: WWG1WWA (#1)
AGREE COMPLETELY !!!!
Must remember his daddy was CIA & CFR !
Stoner posted on 2021-05-03 10:27:44 Reply Private Reply
#3: Stoner To: BorisY (#0)
I would not !
Stoner posted on 2021-05-03 17:49:20 Reply Private Reply
#4: WWG1WWA To: Stoner (#2)
WWG1WWA posted on 2021-05-04 07:57:58 Reply Private Reply
#5: Stoner To: WWG1WWA (#4)
Neither will I !
I was at my Dad's house, watching that SOU with him. When poppy bush said that, my Dad was puzzled. He did not know what that was.
I explained it to him. My Dad, a WWII veteran, and of the same generation as poppy Bush, had a real hard time believing it. He just could not fathom someone of his generation, a fellow vet, could be that way.
I encountered the same problem with my beloved, departed uncle. Uncle was a Korean war vet, and a die hard Republican. He got mad as hell at me, because I would not vote for shrub. I explained to him why. I thought he was going to disown me. Just before he died, he called me, and asked me how I knew about shrub. He finally had come to realize I was right, and he had been wrong.
Stoner posted on 2021-05-04 11:33:28 Reply Private Reply
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wiTh you
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was The poliTical ( 2nd - 3rd way ) acTive parT
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ThaT explained
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I was cured from communism
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iT's pluralism ( wasp ) vs diversiTy ( 666 )
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BorisY posted on 2021-07-10 17:48:13 Reply Private Reply
#20: BorisY To: Gatlin (#18)
Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot - it confuses those who think straight".....
"The whole vocabulary is a dictated set of slowly hypnotizing slogans."
"In the semantic fog that permeates the atmosphere, words lose their direct communicative function."
"They become merely commanding signs, triggering off reactions of fear and terror."
"They are battles cries and Pavlovian signals, and no longer represent free thinking"....
"The fact is that the demagogue is not appealing to what is rational and mature in man; he is appealing to what is most irrational and most immature."
"To attempt to answer his ravings with logic is to attempt the impossible."
From 'The Rape of the Mind' by A. M. Meerloo, M.D.
The Rape of the Mind explores the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing.
Published in 1956 and written by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social Research, Former Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces.
https://archive.org/stream/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/1961%20- %20Rape%20of%20the%20Mind%20-%20Joost%20Meerloo_djvu.txt
This is a quote from the book written by A. M. Meerloo, M.D.
The Rape of the Mind
"The Rape of the Mind explores the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing. Published in 1956 and written by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social Research, Former Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces."
" .people capable only of imitation, incapable of inquisitive sense of objectivity and perspective that leads to questioning and understanding and to the formation of individual ideas and ideals."
"In other words, the individual citizen becomes a parrot, repeating ready-made slogans and propaganda catchwords without understanding what they really mean, or what forces stand behind them."
Great book, highly recommend:
https://archive.org/stream/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/1961%20- %20Rape%20of%20the%20Mind%20-%20Joost%20Meerloo_djvu.txt
BorisY posted on 2021-07-10 18:02:02 Reply Private Reply
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