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applegrove

(118,490 posts)
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 08:24 PM Jan 2016

Jeb Bush and an Uncouth Race

Jeb Bush and an Uncouth Race

https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/18/an-uncouth-race/

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The New York Times notes that the “era of polite and high society — on the courts and playing fields of New England, in the halls of boarding schools and in the corridors of government — is fast fading. And in many ways, the travails of Mr. Bush’s presidential campaign can be seen as perhaps the last, wheezing gasp of the WASP power structure.”

“Against a frustrated, profoundly un-WASP-like Republican electorate that craves the visceral pugnaciousness of Donald J. Trump or the outsider anger of Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. Bush’s family values — of cordial restraint, of civil discourse, of earnest public service — can seem almost quaint.”




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