Last week, former president George W. Bush emerged from his self-imposed political "exile" to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of his vice president, Dick Cheney. There are now reports the Bush family, with other establishment Republicans, are working behind the scenes to retake the GOP from Trump and his populist-themed presidency.
Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, tells AFN he fears the Bush loyalists are “licking their chops” at the prospect Trump's influence ends with his second term.
“Because they intend to grab the party, and bring it back from populist conservatism, back to the establishment Republicanism that has been a failure for decades,” he warns.
Bauer, who worked in the Reagan administration, says he is skeptical that political coup will succeed. That's because he predicts Vice President J.D. Vance is the most likely nominee to follow Trump.
“I don't know who the Bush forces think they're going to get behind that can take the nomination away from a populist conservative like Vance,” he observes. “But if they succeed, they will doom the Republican Party to an historic election defeat."
