In a new column for the Washington Post, columnist Matt Bai is not only calling for George W. Bush to endorse Kamala Harris, but also to apologize for Donald Trump.
Despite frequent attacks on both him and his family, George W. Bush has said next to nothing about Donald Trump's rise in the political world. His refusal to back Trump is obvious, but so is his refusal to condemn him. There are new calls for Bush to back Harris after his daughter Barbara announced that she would be doing so.
Bai wrote in his piece, "Bush owes it to the country to condemn Trumpism in this moment because, of all our former leaders, he did the most to create it. He ought to take this chance to get right with history, because history will almost certainly get rough with him."
The columnist continued, "Trump didn’t spring from nowhere. He was, and is, a vehicle of fury and lost faith. If compassion doesn’t work, then maybe cruelty will. If governing in a democracy means inventing wars and bailing out banks at the expense of soldiers and laid-off workers, then maybe the democratic system itself needs to be demolished."
Bai closed, "Bush must know on some level, too, the verdict history will render. That his failures led us to the brink of dissolution, that from the swamp of his presidency sprang the twin-headed monster of nativism and isolationism."