Opinion - Is this how the Bush dynasty ends?
Source: Washington Post
Opinion ǀ Is this how the Bush dynasty ends?
By James Hohmann
Columnist
May 24, 2022 at 9:30 p.m. EDT
The secret to the Bush family’s longevity in politics was its quickness to move with the country — relocating from New England to Texas to Florida, while shifting from country-club moderates to brush-clearing conservatives, as well as from Episcopalians to born-again evangelicals — as tastes changed.
But the GOP in the era of Donald Trump has changed too dramatically for the Bushies to extend their dynasty into the fourth generation. Seventy years after the patriarch, Prescott Bush, was first elected to the Senate in Connecticut, George P. Bush lost a race Tuesday in Texas to be the next attorney general of the Lone Star State.
This is the third defeat Republican voters have handed Bush men since Trump rode down the golden escalator in 2015. Jeb Bush, George P.’s father, ended his 2016 presidential bid after getting 3 percent in Iowa, 11 percent in New Hampshire and 8 percent in South Carolina. Pierce Bush, George P.’s cousin, finished third in 2020 when he ran for an open congressional seat near Houston, failing to even qualify for a runoff.
George P. (for Prescott, of course) was hardly a political novice. The 46-year-old has been buzzed about as a potential future president since he delivered the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1988 Republican National Convention, when his grandfather was nominated for president. “P,” as he was called by the family, was a favorite of the 41st president and was elected Texas land commissioner in 2014 — an office that is more hat than cattle — and was perceived as a comer to watch.
Bush should have won this race and would have if not for the plague of Trumpism. ...
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