Attorney General Ken Paxton’s victory in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary was more than another signal of former President Donald Trump’s primacy within the GOP.
It probably ended the seven-decade run of one of America’s greatest political families, the four-generation Bush dynasty.
Paxton’s resounding defeat of Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s effort to move up in the Texas GOP hierarchy means that, for the first time since great-grandfather Prescott Bush was elected to the Senate in 1952, no member of the family will hold -- or be seeking -- a significant political position.
