Former president George W. Bush offered his most extensive public comments yet about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and elections at home during an event...
about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and elections at home during an event about democracy on Wednesday., included a slate of experts on democracy and elections, and it made the connection between the threat to democracy posed by the Jan. 6 insurrection in the capital and by Russia in Ukraine. Bush came with his views on freedom and democracy, and his signature self-deprecating humor.
1. “The way countries conduct elections is indicative of how their leaders treat their own people, and how nations behave toward other nations. And nowhere is this on display more clearly than Ukraine.” 2. “The interesting thing about elections and democracy is, it enables our democracy to heal. If you study American history, you realize that our society has been able to heal itself and improve. That’s because of elections. I’m pretty confident we’ll heal ourselves, so long as people vote and take their duty as a citizen seriously.”
3. “The truth of the matter is, our system works pretty well. We’ve got a large complicated country with a variety of different interests and states, and yet we’ve been pulling off elections for a while … Sometimes there are routes, and there’s no question about the legitimacy of the election. And sometimes there are nail-biters, if you know what I mean honey.”
4. Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. And the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine. Iraq too. Anyway. 75.”
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