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Bush’s reemergence lands like a quiet indictment of the way Washington now does business. He isn’t calling out one party, one bill, or one headline scandal; he’s calling out a culture. A culture that normalizes shutdown threats, stuffs complex provisions into midnight deals, and treats compromise as betrayal instead of the engine of a functioning democracy. His warning is less about today’s fight than about tomorrow’s fallout—when families, patients, and small businesses discover what was buried in the fine print.
