Bush tossed Reagan under the bus in his first day...it has been downhill ever since
Reagan should have known that he would do so from the get-go. The one thing that frustrates me about Reagan is why he didn't groom a successor. He should have given someone like Jack Kemp a high-profile Cabinet position.
Reagan had to take Bush as VP to get eastern moneymen to not scuttle Reagan. I have never looked on the Bush’s to be a defender of our Constitution for the ordinary USA citizen. The family has stronger ties to European and Arabic and South of the border people than on the ordinary USA Joes.