It the party of Trump but it was Pat Buchanan's run in 1990 that made Trump possible... like Goldwater made Reagan possible...
True but again this was all before Reagan rise to power in 1980 and before 1980 both parties had a healthy mixed of moderates in them. After Goldwater's run in 1964 the Republicans started shedding their more moderate members...
Agree, but it may be Trump's party but it was Pat Buchanan who planted the seeds that gave rise to Trump...
Link to a article about it... they both had the same platform themes... Buchanan may have lost in 1990 but he has the last laugh...
LINK:
https://theweek.com/articles/853163/how-pat-buchanan-made-president-trump-possible
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William Bennett warned that Buchanan "cannot be allowed to hijack conservatism." Newt Gingrich said that Buchanan was "an extremist who is closer to David Duke than he is to the normal mainstream conservative." Several years later, in a 1999 article for National Review titled "A Conservative No More," Ramesh Ponnuru excommunicated Buchanan from the conservative movement.
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Bennett, who accused Buchanan of "flirting with fascism," supports Trump, who quoted Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, approvingly ("it's a very good quote"). So does Gingrich. And David Duke.
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His(Pat Buchanan)
candidacies exposed fissures on the right and showed that there was an untapped market for nativism, protectionism, and isolationism.
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With communism defeated, Buchanan found new enemies: immigrants, multinational corporations, and "globalists" (among others). In the new culture war, Buchanan sided with "forgotten Americans" and "conservatives of the heart"
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the 1992 Republican National Convention, he(Pat Buchanan) praised "hard, tough men" who "don't read Adam Smith or Edmund Burke." Men like Trump, who loves the poorly educated and doesn't even read his own books.
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Buchanan criticized "democratist ideology" and "democracy worship" and yearned for an "American Caesar."
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Buchanan fretted about the paucity of "white Christians" and "non-Jewish whites" in the Ivy League and demanded affirmative action for "European-Americans." Trump signed an executive order aimed at protecting conservatives on college campuses.
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Both have described immigration as an "invasion." To stop it, Buchanan proposed a "double-link security fence." Trump proposed a wall.
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Buchanan said that Martin Luther King Jr. was "evil" and proclaimed "God bless Arizona" after the state refused to adopt King's birthday as a state holiday. As you may know, Trump has said racist-sounding things, too.
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Like Trump, Buchanan has been accused of racism — by Trump. In 1999, Trump said that Buchanan was "in love with Adolf Hitler." Asked about Buchanan on Meet the Press, Trump said, "He's a Hitler lover. I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks. He doesn't like the gays. It's just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy. And maybe he'll get 4 or 5 percent of the vote and it'll be a really staunch right wacko vote."
Trump later apologized to Buchanan. Not only did Buchanan forgive him, but he cheered him on. "I was elated, delighted that Trump picked up on the exact issues on which I challenged Bush," Buchanan told Politico.
As you can tell they are one in the same and I found another article on the topic which is a good read... by Politico...
The link...
Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing - POLITICO Magazine
WOW..... & I thought your last posts were ridiculous.
President Trump was made possible by, President Obama, & Hillary Clinton specifically. Had the DNC not cheated Bernie out of the nomination in '16, he'd be President right now imo.
To claim our President is a racist like Buchanan is laughable. Some of the most polarizing race baiters (Sharpton/Jackson/etc..) in our country loved the man, until he ran/became President. Donald Trump is no true conservative, & he's barely a Republican. He spent time as a registered Democrat, & as an Independent. He's donated plenty of money to the Clinton's, & other Dems previously.
What most people don't acknowledge, & the root of why many politicians on both sides loathe the man is, because for the longest time, there hasn't been a huge difference between the two parties nationally. They have been historically self serving, & not really too far apart. It's really only been in the last decade or so that, real differences have widened, & become glaringly obvious. Plenty of folks have profited from this. The status quo in the swamp benefits both parties. President Trump has disrupted a lot of that, & behind closed doors, is probably equally despised by many power brokers on both sides.
A better candidate than Clinton, & Trump would never have become President. Going forward, I don't believe the DNC has learned from their mistakes last go around, & will get punked next November. Time will tell.....