If the Republican Party as it is now did not have Donald Trump, then it would be a “Republican Party of George Bush,” at least this is what one former NBA player thought of the matter in his recent talk with Stephen A. Smith.
In one of the recent episodes of “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” former NBA player Rocye White gave his brutally honest description of the Republican Party without Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
“Without a Donald Trump, the Republican party is the Republican party of George Bush. And there is no greater threat to freedom and American stability than the neocon warmongering of the George Bush types in the Republican party.”
Prior to this, White was asked where he would stand if the Republican party didn’t have Donald Trump and there is no MAGA movement, to which he had one answer: he would go independent.
“Well, without Donald Trump, I’d have to say I’d run independent or I would have tried to fight my way up to the top of the Democrat party and been smack down the way I think you may run into actually, in fact, if you run on the Democrat side,” White said, talking about Smith’s potential presidential bid.
However, White also acknowledges that being independent may not be the most advantageous position in politics.
“I’d have to say independent, and I probably would have had a very tough time winning as an independent in any office all across the country, because the party or the independent just doesn’t have that political power and machine and sort of tribalness to it.”
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