An anti-war demonstrator wearing a mask of US President George W. Bush with devil horns dances during a protest in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 2 2007. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
When Donald Trump won the 2016 Republican primary, he didn’t just defeat a field of rivals; he toppled a dynasty.
For nearly three decades, the Bush family and its vassals lorded over red America. This regime’s style of Republicanism reflected the peculiar interests and obsessions of country-club conservatives: tax cuts, free trade, and mass immigration to lower corporations’...
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