George W Bush paved the way for Trump - to rehabilitate him is appalling

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12. Yes, you hit on one of the real culprits, without the efforts of

Sarandon, Moore, Nader and others, there most likely would have never been a President George W Bush.

Although Bush and his hench-people played with the fire of rightwing religious extremism, they never counted on an experienced conman like Trump taking that thunder from them and turning it into a lightning bolt against them. Jeb Bush catered totally to religious zealots with the Terri Schiavo case and other policy issues, they abandoned him like a reeking pair of dirty drawers when Trump came a-calling with his racist dogwhistles.

Bushco created a Frankenstein, Trump took that monster and turned it against them. Now people like the Lincoln Project republicans want to have us help them get rid of Trump, and we will gladly do that, but the party they so maliciously built over the last 50 years no longer is theirs, and I argue that it will never again be theirs -there is a conman or conwoman watching how white evangelicals have sold out for Trump, and they see the mistakes Trump is making that they will try not to make. The Lincoln Project republican conservatives have been shoved aside, one other thing that they must do beside go after Trump is reflect deeply on how their own actions ultimately led to him (I honestly have not seen that self reflection evident in any recovered republican, even David Frum, whom I view as the most sincere and regretful among them).