OPINION:
Dozens upon dozens of former staffers with George W. Bush’s administration are reportedly leaving the GOP, based on disgust with the party over its failure to hang Donald Trump from the gallows, or, at the very least, publicly wish someone would hang him from the gallows. Or, at the very least, to purge him from the history books and pretend he and his deplorable types never existed.
Yawn. Do tell.
That’s almost as threatening as that time Sen. John McCain shuffled his oafy pretend-GOP self to the front of the cameras in Congress to give a dramatic thumbs-down to Obamacare repeal, in defiance of Trump’s agenda.
That is to say: not.
Bush people. The kind of people who spark this headline at BushCenter.org: “Is Being an American and a Globalist at Odds?” The kind of people who then answer that question this way: “This is a false choice. There is no tension between being an ‘American’ and a ‘globalist,’” said Max Boot, with the Council on Foreign Relations, in a “lively exchange” at the George W. Bush Institute that concluded “the two are not mutually exclusive.”
Founding Fathers, intent as they were on independence, might resist that viewpoint.
So, too, common sense.
Just as it’s impossible to serve God and mammon at the same time, it’s impossible to completely serve America and foreign countries at the same time. One must lead; one must follow. Is it honestly to be believed that foreign leaders don’t know this and seek to exploit those who don’t? That alone — that tightrope walk of serving America while fighting off pressures of foreigners to serve their interests first — that alone guarantees tension. Any American diplomat or politician who doesn’t acknowledge that truth is a liar and doesn’t belong in office.
Enter the Bush people.
Enter the Bush people and their abhorrence for Trump-type “America First” policy.
“If [the GOP] continues to be the party of Trump, many of us are not going back,” said former U.S. Treasury staffer Rosario Marin, to Reuters, The Hill reported. “Unless the Senate convicts him, and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us will not be going back to vote for Republican leaders.”
Good.
The Trump magic continues, even as he’s out of office.
One of Trump’s greatest contributions to American politics was to drive the cockroaches from the corners and shine a light on the shadowy dark deep-staters of government — the ones who pretended to work for U.S. interests, but who really served globalists, collectivists, communists and their own selfish selves, at the expense of the people who paid their salaries, the citizens.
Looks like he’s still doing it.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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