On Tuesday, political reported that former president George H.W. Bush would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

The Bush family has shunned Trump since the primaries, and they've drawn close to the Clintons ever since George H.W. left office in 1992.

But still, the news was kind of shocking, given both the Bush family's continued prominence in American politics,

George P. Bush is currently Texas land commissioner and has his eye on higher office. But the H.W. apparent decision, which was reported by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, really doesn't come as much of a surprise. The Bush family isn't put off so much by Trump's policy proposals, except for immigration and free trade. The Bush family actually likes a lot of what Trump has to say. They're mostly put off by Trump's attitude, his boorishness, his ignorance, his general sense of no-nothingism. To be fair, Trump club Jeb like a baby seal and the Bush family specifically during the debates, and that had to draw some hire from the family you'd imagine. But for George H.W. Bush, the deciding factor was likely attitudinal. Trump just doesn't belong. The Clinton's by dint of two decades in the White House spotlight do.

This is one of the objections to Trump that many Trump supporters have a right to be angry about.

It's one thing to object to Trump based on policy differences and a general belief he taxifies the conservative message.

That's why I oppose Trump.

It's another thing to do it because you don't belong, you think he doesn't belong in the Tony company of the upper crust blue bloods. The Bush family feels like American royalty. They appear to see Trump as some sort of new vogue rich blowhard. That feels elitist, not principled. Nobody was surprised the person who reported H.W's voting choice was a Kennedy. That's how the Bush's apparently roll. And that

feeling of Republican elitism helped drive Trump to new heights in the primaries. Trump wasn't merely a

reaction to the neocons or the Republican establishment. He was reaction to the Bush family in particular,

their genteel sensibilities, their family heritage, their general chumminess with the Clintons.

Republican primary voters reveled in the Trump

Jeb pile drivers every time Trump would climb up on the third level of the of the ring and then jump

on top of Jeb, they felt great because it felt like Trump was willing to hit people hard, unlike the Bush family,

which means that HW's quasi-endorsement of Hillary Clinton isn't likely to drive a lot of Republican

voters away from Trump. In fact, it may do precisely the opposite. It actually may drive

Republican voters toward Trump, since H.W. lost the presidency to the Clintons, made friends

with them, and now appears to want them back in office. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro.

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