After Donald Trump won narrowly in 2016, a consensus formed that his support had come from “forgotten” men and women. That’s for sure. That three-decades-ago convention in Texas is as good a marker as any for when Democrats and liberal opinion started a long political and cultural distancing from much of the American middle class.

Times change. Family values have been displaced by a more media-driven agenda: racism, identity, gender, immigration, tariffs. Taxes are a constant, but if President Trump raises taxes next year in a compromise with the Pelosi Democrats, don’t expect the Beltway press to give him the same praise 41 is getting this week for reversing his no-new-taxes pledge.

Perhaps, like Bush, Donald Trump will be a one-term president, and for the same reason—a slowing U.S. economy. But if you want to discover why America lost the personal and political values of George H.W. Bush, forget Donald Trump. Look deeper.

// Contrast with that nasty bit from the new Chron ed board member