This has hit a raw nerve in me."

“Every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act,” Bush wrote.

“He was performing.

Surely, we thought, none of this was real.

We now know better.”

“None of us were guilty of knowingly enabling our future president,” Bush writes.

“But all of us were guilty of sacrificing a bit of ourselves in the name of success.”

Take a look atThe New York Times’entire column.

Bush’s column comes just one day beforehis scheduled appearance with Stephen Colberton CBS’The Late Show.

It will mark his first late-night appearance since he was fired last year.