The suggestion of a supposedly vast contrast between George H. W.
Bush and Trump is an exercise in self-deception. What the bourgeoisie
mourns in the transition from George H. W. Bush to Trump is the dramatic
decline in the world position of American capitalism, from the
illusions of the “unipolar moment,” the “new world order” and even “the
end of history” that followed the dissolution of the USSR, to the grim
reality of the United States as a declining world hegemon facing
challenges from new rivals like China and allies turned potential
threats like Germany.
The true measure of the decay of the American ruling elite is not the
transition from Bush to Trump, but the contrast between the brilliant
family dynasty of the first decades after the American
Revolution—President John Adams; son John Quincy Adams, also a
president; grandson Charles Francis Adams, a diplomat under Lincoln;
great-grandson Henry Adams, novelist, historian and essayist—and the
dreadful Bush dynasty. The Adamses were a product of the rise of
American democracy, while the Bushes epitomize its utter corruption and
decay.
-- Patrick Martin, "The state funeral for George H. W. Bush and the ritual of oligarchy" (WSWS).