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| The Bushes, the Clintons, China... and Trump |
| 2020-09-15 |
| [American Thinker] The Clinton, Bush, and Trump families will forever be intertwined in not just American history, but the history of the world. The past several years have certainly seen a major change in what once seemed to be a warm relationship between the Trumps and the Clintons, two elite New York clans inhabiting similar circles that have now become the political equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys. To a lesser extent, because they never seemed particularly close, the same can be said about the Trump and Bush families as well. We also all remember prior to his being nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, that President Trump had to contend with the man who was considered by many the most powerful threat to his possible presidency in the GOP establishment -- former Florida governor Jeb Bush. During the early portion of the primary, Bush, whose campaign never recovered from the early attacks from Trump, was continually embarrassed and even seemingly bullied by the cocksure future president. But, despite a past prior to politics that was full of congenial exchanges, former candidate Trump was well aware of the failures of the Clinton and both Bush administrations, as much of his "America First" policy was predicated on undoing the damage of a combined 20 years of pro-Globalist American leadership. At the top of the list of these failures is the issue of America’s previous China polices. The "Red Dragon," which had been rightly banished from most of the global economy until the 1970s, was unwisely allowed to be put on the fast track to global economic inclusion beginning in 1986 when at the behest of politicians including then-vice-president George H.W. Bush, the communist nation achieved "observer" status with the predecessor to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Perhaps we should have had Jeb in 2000 instead of W but we don't do political dynasties in the USA and two was already pushing it. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-09-15 10:18 |