{"id":470897,"date":"2021-05-04T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=470897"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:20:47","slug":"bush-says-gop-cant-win-anything-if-its-just-a-white-anglo-saxon-protestantism-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bush-says-gop-cant-win-anything-if-its-just-a-white-anglo-saxon-protestantism-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Says GOP Can\u2019t \u2018Win Anything\u2019 If It\u2019s Just A \u2018White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism\u2019 Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbush-says-gop-cant-win-anything-if-its-just-a-white-anglo-saxon-protestantism-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=470897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bush-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President George W. Bush says the Republican Party can\u2019t win if it becomes just a \u201cwhite Anglo-Saxon Protestantism\u201d party.<\/p>\n<p>Bush, who has reappeared in the public forum as he promotes his new pro-immigration book \u201cOut of Many, One: Portraits of America\u2019s Immigrants,\u201d says the GOP needs to bring in a more diverse group of supporters if it wants to return to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your Republican Party stands for exclusivity \u2014 you know, it used to be country clubs, now evidently it\u2019s white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism \u2014 then it\u2019s not going to win anything,\u201d Bush <a class href=\"https:\/\/podcast.thedispatch.com\/p\/george-w-bush-paints-e-pluribus-unum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a recent interview with The Dispatch podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole point on all this immigration debate and stuff is, I think if we valued life as precious and every life matters, that we\u2019re all God\u2019s children, that all of a sudden the tone of the debate might be a little better,\u201d Bush told hosts Sarah Isgur, a GOP former Department of Justice spokeswoman, and Steven Hayes, the ex-editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I was discouraged when I saw some of the language associated with immigrants and wanted to present a different side,\u201d the 43rd president, 74, said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Isgur asked Bush whether he would remain a member of the GOP if the party follows the same path for the next three to five years.\u00a0\u201cNo I\u2019d say there\u2019s not going to be a party,\u201d Bush said. \u201cYou know, to me that basically says that we want to be extinct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he said he is still \u201cproudly\u201d a Republican and expressed cautious optimism that the party can return to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Republicans will have a second chance to govern, because I believe that the Biden administration is a uniting factor, and particularly on the fiscal side of things. So, you know, we\u2019ll see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bush\u2019s remarks came days after he warned that President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pull all American troops from Afghanistan could hurt women and girls if the \u201cbrutal\u201d Taliban returns to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first reaction was, wow, these girls are going to have real trouble with the Taliban,\u201d Bush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/former-president-george-w-bush-immigration-system-needs-to-be-reformed-110509125680\">said<\/a> last week on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday.\u201d \u201cA lot of gains have been made, and so I\u2019m deeply concerned about the plight of women and girls in that country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the administration hopes that the girls are going be OK through diplomacy. We\u2019ll find out. All I know is the Taliban, when they had the run of the place, they were brutal,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, less than a month after the September 11 attacks. But despite campaign pledges by Barack Obama in his first run for the White House \u2014 as well as Donald Trump \u2014 neither ever fully withdrew U.S. troops from the war-torn nation. The war has cost more than $2.2 trillion, according to one <a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/us-costs-date-war-afghanistan-2001-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0conducted by Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said April 24 that the events of 9\/11 \u201ccannot explain why we should remain there in 2021.\u201d Biden also said he spoke to Bush before announcing the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke yesterday with President Bush to inform him of my decision,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWhile he and I have had many disagreements over policy throughout the years, we\u2019re absolutely united in our respect and support for the valor, the courage, and integrity of the women and men in the United States Armed Forces who served, and immensely grateful for the bravery and backbone they have shown through nearly two decades of combat deployments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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