“The president of the United States has to understand that the American people have a view,” Rice said, “and that our leadership cannot be (reduced to) the lowest common denominator positions.”

So given Rice’s silence on Trump, we can assume that she doesn’t think Trump has taken any “lowest common denominator positions.” And that they share the same “sense of values of who we are.”

http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/George-Shultz-Condoleezza-Rice-conspicuously-9142089.php

And apparently, when it comes to Republicans, he has a prankish sense of humor.

No George, it's YOUR damn party that "has gone off the rails". You and your fellow GOPers sat back silent or even in support of this type of nonsense (up to and including doubling down on the stupid) for 3 decades as the RW talk radio and other media "built this". And now here we are with a man who is nothing more than a caricature member of a party that itself has become a caricature.

I get the sense that he's been away from politics for a long time.

Schultz was 68. And he was apparently actively engaged in the 2012 election - http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303740704577523541037952090

Providing a "Memo to Mitt Romney" via a WSJ interview.

They built Trump.

I can't remember the last time I heard his name.