No matter what happens during the Trump administration, one has to be aware that powerful forces are working to dismantle the coalition that Trump has built. Fracturing the MAGA coalition, the America First coalition, is the number one goal of all the old guard eRepublicans as well as the Democrats.
Back in 2010 they succeeded in breaking up the leaderless Tea Party movement. The Republicans intentionally lost specific races because the wrong Republicans were running. Campaign funding was withheld from Tea Party linked candidates. In this the Uniparty protects its own.
Will this happen again?
Ken Blackwell has some insights:
Report: Bush family is planning GOP-takeover after Trump!
The same Bush family that presided over the Iraq War, the forever-wars foreign policy, the Wall Street-first Republican Party, and the era of endless globalist “nation building” is apparently looking to retake the GOP from Donald Trump and regain the throne they lost nearly a decade ago.
They’re calling it an end to the “Bush exile,” as if America has been wandering in the desert just waiting for Jeb to rise up and save us from the voters who dared to choose something different.
And make no mistake — this report makes it clear that George W. Bush and his network of old-guard insiders aren’t just reminiscing about the old days.
They’re organizing. They’re laying groundwork. They’re talking to donors.
They’re dreaming of 2028 like it’s their big return tour.
It almost reads like a political ghost story.
A dynasty that was soundly defeated in 2016, rejected overwhelmingly by the grassroots, now whispering behind closed doors, convinced they can sneak back in and “restore” the GOP to their version of Republicanism.
The version that voters walked away from.
The version that created the very conditions that made Trump’s rise inevitable.
And the funniest part of this whole thing is how openly the report says it: the Bush circle thinks Trump’s movement only lasts as long as Trump himself stays in office.
They think once he’s gone, once this chapter closes, the conservative base will suddenly snap back to 2004 and start craving the old cocktail-party Republicanism again.
They think people will forget why the Bush era ended.
They think the coalition Trump built — the working-class voters, the independents, the people who hadn’t voted in years — will simply evaporate.
It is astonishing how out of touch this all sounds.
Because the truth is that the Republican Party changed.
Not because of a family name.
Not because of a donor class memo.
But because millions of Americans demanded a different direction.
They demanded borders, not open-ended democracy projects overseas.
They demanded fair trade, not trade deals that hollowed out entire towns.
They demanded leadership that looked inward at the American worker instead of outward at global institutions that never cared about them.
Trump didn’t invent that sentiment — he revealed it.
He exposed the gap between what the base wanted and what the old establishment thought the base should want.
And that’s exactly why the Bush world is nervous.
Because they know the coalition Trump reshaped is still here.
They know its power didn’t disappear.
They know the party is not the same party they ran for decades.
This idea that a political dynasty can simply walk back onto the stage after everything that has happened — after the realignment, after the primaries, after the debates, after the grassroots revolts — and reclaim the GOP like it’s a family heirloom is one of the most tone-deaf moves we’ve seen in years.
The country is different.
The voters are different.
The Republican Party is different.
And the Bush family trying to quietly maneuver its way back to the top is not a sign of strength.
It is a sign of panic.
A sign that the old guard knows its window is shrinking.
A sign that they see the future forming without them and they desperately want to drag it back to the past.
But the voters remember.
They remember the wars.
They remember the bailouts.
They remember the speeches about “compassionate conservatism” while the southern border crumbled and American jobs were shipped overseas.
And those memories didn’t fade.
That’s why this report feels like a relic — a strange attempt to pretend the movement that reshaped the Republican Party was just a detour instead of a transformation.
The Bush dynasty had its chapter.
America turned the page.
And now they want to rewrite it.
Good luck.
Because if they think the Republican base is going to hand the keys back to the same dynasty the voters threw out almost a decade ago, they’re in for the shock of their political lives.
The future of the GOP is being written by the people — not by a family name, not by a political dynasty, and certainly not by a group of elites planning their comeback in private while pretending the last ten years never happened.
The base chose its direction.
And no amount of quiet plotting in Texas boardrooms is going to change that.
Not now.
Not in 2028.
Not ever.
Amen!