Translating President Bush for the Brits
What single fact tells you more about George W Bush and American politics than any other? That he converted from his family's Anglicanism and became a Methodist. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in Britain. More to the point, the habit in Britain is the other way round. If you start life as a Methodist and then rise in the world socially, you tend to graduate ("convert" is much too strenuous a word) to Anglicanism.
snip. Bush's posh, Anglican background, Queen's cousin, elite schools, etc...
Bush junior's conversion follows that path - a turning away from personal failure (in his case drinking and getting nowhere) through a direct experience of God, a journey away from social grandeur to something that seemed more rugged, a journey from Connecticut to Texas. |