Lock that lying criminal up. That won't happen and we all now why.

Reagan really started the downward spiral of the working class with his service economy. Basically he was saying let the American worker serve his betters while we use low cost foreign labor for manufacturing. In purely economic terms it made sense, you can export slave labor and pollution and those ugly factories while keeping the middle class happy with cheap imports. After all the U.S. economy was going to be strong as long as the dollar remained the international exchange currency under the petrol dollar arrangement. Unfortunately the human cost was pretty steep. Hollowing out the industrial base created the rust belt and places like Detroit. I'm not saying that the trend wasn't underway before Reagan it's just that during his administration the U.S. started to look like Mexico with the rich and the poor. Every subsequent president besides Trump followed the same pattern.

Busting the unions was popular with republicans. No doubt unions did a lot of damage to the U.S. economy but they were better than turning the average worker into an opiate addict or meth head. Then there was the natural affinity of unions to the socialist lite Democrats. What republicans didn't understand was that the working class has always been strangely conservative because of genetics. Perhaps not in the conscientious sense so much as in the patriotic sense. Now that corporations are on the democrats side MAGA is the only game in town for republicans.

One of the most ironic aspects of the common perception by republicans of their party being the capitalism party is that finance is not capitalism. Capitalism is about private ownership of productivity. Finance has always been about exploiting productivity. The financial sector doesn't produce anything. Often it's practitioners such as Romney get rich breaking up productive enterprises. I'm not saying that finance isn't important to capitalism only that finance is disconnected from productivity. A bank can make just as much money loaning money for luxury items as new productive enterprises. Most republican politicians are more closely associated with finance than productivity. Most republican voters don't understand the difference. Often financial institutions stand in the way of productivity by funding what is highly profitable not what creates real national wealth. The Bush family has always been more on the finance side of things than the capitalism side. When the rich become disconnected from building productive enterprises their more likely to slip into morally questionable positions. Productivity keeps them somewhat honest because it can't be faked.

Trump was a builder. That doesn't mean what he built was all that closely associated with producing tangible wealth. He tended to be on the luxury side of building. That said it put him in touch with actual builders which grounded him in reality. He wasn't a banister like Romney who fully evokes the insanity of modern finance and the idea that making money is the definition of capitalism. Making money is only capitalism if it a result of building something that increases actual physical wealth. That doesn't mean that banks and supporting industries even health services, education or entertainment along with many other professions don't play a supporting role it's just that those roles are abstract enough that the related morality is difficult to define. It turns out that capitalism is a morality system. To participate the average person has to voluntarily refrain from activities that make them unproductive. It encourages responsible behavior. If properly combined with liberal democracy it restrains capitalists as well, if and only if their reputation requires them to act morally in the eyes of their peers and associates. Things such as insider trading wouldn't happen if there was no cronyism.

The neo cons like Bush junior are fascists like the leadership in China. They believe in state power to control the productive sectors of society and bend them to increasing their own power or wealth and the power and wealth of their cronies. It doesn't matter if it global cronyism because the state has merged across borders. Nationalism has become globalism for many elites.

I was never a fan or a supporter of GW - only voted for him because he was not the democrat party candidate - the lesser of two evils. The man is low IQ, an alcoholic, a billionaire son of a billionaire family who otherwise would only have been an unskilled and often drunken and unemployed laborer. He offers no real qualified opinions or analyses of matters in the social or political spectrum. In other words his opinions are of no value and of no interest to me.
So I don't really care what he may have said about MAGA people. When GW speaks he is only marginally more coherent than Joe Biden is today and I'm glad we are finally free of the so called "Bush dynasty" - they were of no help to the American People and only served their cohorts in bilking the country of billions of dollars and untold volumes of American blood - so GW can go fuck himself.

Remember what junior said to his wife at his father's funeral, "I told them everything".
He is going to Gitmo!