While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush’s era

The MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America’s looming presidential election.

“All any decent person wants him to do is to say, ‘Don’t vote for Donald Trump, and here’s why,’ and he won’t even do that,” O’Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009.

Increasingly, Bush – and some other top Republicans from his political era – are looking lonely in their ongoing refusal to take a side in an election in which many have warned that US democracy is under threat from Trump’s open sympathies with autocracy.


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    3 months ago

    And the proof several others posted about former presidents endorsing candidates, including George W. Bush doesn’t mean anything because you are the authority here?

    Maybe presidents shouldn’t endorse, but not everything is as it should, because you said so. And just because it shouldn’t you can’t just say it isn’t, as if it were a fact.

    • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      3 months ago

      Reagan changed many paradigms for the worse. I’d bet the majority here couldn’t name his predecessor without looking it up, let alone the legislative majorities and legislation.

      I’m going to go do something more productive.

      • sartalon@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, man. This crowd doesn’t really care about the point you were trying to make. Lemmy just wants to vote their feelings.

        Don’t sweat it.

        • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          Don’t sweat it.

          Your lack of care (and history of shallow reasoning and arrogance) is why everything increasingly sucks.

          This crowd… Lemmy

          This crowd isn’t representative of Lemmy whole.