In a speech to Massachusetts Republicans on Tuesday, Jonathan Bush addressed the rise of Donald Trump in the political sphere and his plans to become more politically active, according to a Boston Globe report.
The co-founder and CEO of athenahealth spoke about the anger in the Republican Party, which has fueled Mr. Trump's path to becoming the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency, according to the report.
"You don't get a hateful guy if people aren't feeling a lot of hateful frustration," Mr. Bush told The Globe in a later interview. "We as Republicans created a demand for a Trump. Let us not blame the people who support him and let us not blame him."
Instead, Mr. Bush said the systems are failing the American people, prohibiting them from ultimately being successful. He said politics have led to a "co-opting of the American opportunity into such a profound welfare state that nothing is free to do."
However, Mr. Bush, who is a cousin of former president George W. Bush and former Republican nominee hopeful Jeb Bush, said he still is not planning on voting for Mr. Trump, citing concerns of "a national security apparatus in Trump's hands," according to The Globe.
"If he was a little bit less clinically narcissistic, I would vote for him," Mr. Bush said.
When asked about his own political aspirations, Mr. Bush said he wants to be more politically active, but not to the point of putting another Bush in the White House.
"First of all, we need another Bush like I need a hole in my head," Mr. Bush said in the report. "I don't want to be another Bush, but I do want to be politically active, I do want to provide air cover."
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