Left-wingery in certain venues was a Bush signature. The Bushes, father and son, worked to defuse Republican opposition to racial preference schemes (see Bush the Younger’s preferred scheme for allocating admissions slots at the University of Texas) and adopted marketing strategies (‘kinder, gentler nation’; ‘compassionate conservatisim’) which legitimated the social worker mentality by implicitly conceding points to the social work lobby.
They had no compassion to spare for blue or white collar workers already in the country. Good riddance to a dynasty that did its best to create a permanent Democratic majority.
The Bush family is enough to make one consider that Madame DeFarge had the right idea.