Reuters reports the following story, and the headline largely sums it up.
Exclusive: Dozens of Former Bush Officials Leave Republican Party, Calling It 'Trump Cult'
While preferable to a Democrat administration, the Bush terms were largely periods of wasted opportunity. While I understand these appointees showing loyalty to former employers they admired and liked, it isn’t clear any currently active Republicans are going to miss them.
Will they become enthusiastic Democrats, the only other active choice in our de facto two party nation? I’d guess they will simply become unmotivated independents who find little to like in either party.
Their corporate internationalist version of “Republican” doesn’t have a lot of adherents in this era of populist nationalism on the right. And their wealth means they’ve found more simpatico cronies among wealthy Democrats.
