![]() Which is to say, Bush is moving now to claim his title as Future of the GOP. But he’s inched his way into the national consciousness in the past two years, first as the lone Bush to endorse Donald Trump for president, and more recently as the final person to eulogize George H. All the same, he seems to view his father’s fate in 2016 as instructive rather than prophetic. And the last presidential election (see Jeb’s “ Please clap” moment) suggested that the Bush family was anything but. He knows that what’s in now are the underdogs, the disrupters, the figures strange enough to accommodate this very strange moment. He would prefer to prove that he is (as so many of those close to him have emphasized to me) his own man, with his own ideas. Bush: A political dynasty’s young hopeīut Bush would rather not endure comparisons. Unlike any of his elders, moreover, he actually won his first race-in 2014, for Texas land commissioner, an office he was reelected to in 2018. ![]() And what he lacks in his uncle’s easy charm, he makes up for in solid pronunciation skills. His love of policy recalls his father, while his relaxed manner recalls his uncle-he’s the kind of person you can see yourself grabbing a beer with. Like his Mexican-born mother (and the soon-to-be plurality of Texans), he identifies as Latino. Like his grandfather, he has a patrician jawline. Bush, who is 43 and goes by George P., can seem like the updated and optimized product of his forebears. Once we had that sorted out, we sat down at a table near the middle of the gym, where, to a pulsing soundtrack featuring lyrics like I love bad bitches, that’s my fuckin’ problem, I asked questions about his political future.īeing a scion of one of America’s leading political families comes with the advantage of inherited hindsight, or the ability to parse what sold (and what didn’t) in those who came before you. It quickly became clear that Bush, who was dressed in a black T-shirt, black mesh shorts, and a black baseball cap that read come and take it (a reference to the Texas Revolution), had not invited me to CrossFit to work out, but to catch the end of his own session. ![]() “You look like you’re ready for a class yourself!” “Oh!” he said once the fog of confusion lifted. But when I showed up at the appointed time in hastily acquired workout garb, Bush, who was lifting a heavy object, looked at me like I was an alien. The day before, Bush had switched up our meeting place from a barbecue joint, where we were supposed to have lunch, to the gym, where I assumed we would exercise. ![]() George Prescott Bush wants you to know that he is not low-energy.Īt least, that’s the distinct impression I got when I encountered Bush, the elder son of Jeb and leading repository for the hopes of an endangered political dynasty, one January morning at a CrossFit gym in Austin, Texas. ![]()
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