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After Brexit, a Trump Path to Victory
Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 06/28/2016 6:59:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

Some of us have long predicted the breakup of the European Union. The Cousins appear to have just delivered the coup de grace.

While Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU, England voted for independence. These people, with their unique history, language and culture, want to write their own laws and rule themselves.

The English wish to remain who they are, and they do not want their country to become, in Theodore Roosevelt's phrase, "a polyglot boarding house" for the world.

From patriots of all nations, congratulations are in order.

It will all begin to unravel now, over there, and soon over here.

Across Europe, tribalism, of all strains, is resurgent. Not only does the EU appear to be breaking up, countries appear about to break up.

Scotland will seek a second referendum to leave the U.K. The French National Front of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party for Freedom both want out of the EU. As Scots seek to secede from the U.K., Catalonia seeks to secede from Spain, Veneto from Italy, and Flemish nationalists from Belgium.

Ethnonationalism seems everywhere ascendant. Yet, looking back in history, is this not the way the world has been going for some centuries now?

The disintegration of the EU into its component nations would follow, as Vladimir Putin helpfully points out, the dissolution of the USSR into 15 nations, and the breakup of Yugoslavia into seven.

Czechoslovakia lately split in two. The Donbass seeks to secede from Ukraine. Is that so different from Transnistria splitting off from Romania, Abkhazia and South Ossetia seceding from Georgia, and Chechnya seeking separation from Russia?

After World War II came the disintegration of the French and British empires and birth of dozens of new nations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. America returned the Philippine islands to their people.

The previous century saw the collapse of the Spanish Empire and birth of a score of new nations in our own hemisphere.

In Xi Jinping's China and Putin's Russia, nationalism is rising, even as China seeks to repress Uighur and Tibetan separatists.

People want to rule themselves, and be themselves, separate from all others. Palestinians want their own nation. Israelis want "a Jewish state."

On Cyprus, Turks and Greeks seem happier apart.

Kurds are fighting to secede from Turkey and Iraq, and perhaps soon from Syria and Iran. Afghanistan appears to be splintering into regions dominated by Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks and Tajiks.

Eritrea has left Ethiopia. South Sudan has seceded from Khartoum.

Nor is America immune to the populist sentiments surging in Europe.

In Bernie Sanders' fulminations against corporate and financial elites one hears echoes of the radical leftist rhetoric in Greece and Italy against EU banking elites.

And as "Brexit" swept the native-born English outside of multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual London, populist-nationalist Donald Trump and antiestablishment Ted Cruz swept the native-born white working and middle classes in the primaries.

In Britain, all the mainstream parties -- Labor, Tory, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National -- supported "Remain." All lost.

Nigel Farage's UK Independence Party alone won.

In the past six months, millions of Democrats voted for a 74-year-old socialist against the establishment choice, Hillary Clinton, as Bush-Romney-Ryan Republicanism was massively repudiated in the Republican primaries.

As Trump said last week, "We got here because we switched from a policy of Americanism -- focusing on what's good for America's middle class -- to a policy of globalism, focusing on how to make money for large corporations who can move their wealth and workers to foreign countries all to the detriment of the American worker and the American economy."

Yesterday, news arrived that in May alone, the U.S. had run a trade deficit in goods of $60 billion. This translates into an annual deficit of $720 billion in goods, or near 4 percent of our GDP wiped out by purchases of foreign-made rather than U.S.-made goods.

In 40 years, we have not run a trade surplus. The most self-sufficient republic in all of history now relies for its necessities upon other nations.

What might a Trumpian policy of Americanism over globalism entail?

A 10 to 20 percent tariff on manufactured goods to wipe out the trade deficit in goods, with the hundreds of billions in revenue used to slash or eliminate corporate taxes in the USA.

Every U.S. business would benefit. Every global company would have an incentive not only to move production here, but its headquarters here.

An "America first" immigration policy would secure the border, cut legal immigration to tighten U.S. labor markets, strictly enforce U.S. laws against those breaking into our country, and get tough with businesses that make a practice of hiring people here illegally.

In Europe and America, corporate, financial and political elites are increasingly disrespected and transnationalism is receding. An anti-establishment, nationalist, populist wave is surging across Europe and the USA.

It is an anti-insider, anti-Clinton wave, and Trump could ride it to victory.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2016election; brexit; buchanan; donaldtrump; patbuchanan

1 posted on 06/28/2016 6:59:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
I really want to support Trump, largely because he isn't Hillary/pure evil. But this: A 10 to 20 percent tariff on manufactured goods to wipe out the trade deficit in goods, with the hundreds of billions in revenue used to slash or eliminate corporate taxes in the USA. is so pure stupid it just hurts to even contemplate. Rigorous enforcement of trade sanctions against dumping, currency manipulation, and similar trade practices are fine. Tariffs are just stupid.
2 posted on 06/28/2016 7:09:03 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: Kaslin
It is an anti-insider, anti-Clinton wave, and Trump could ride it to victory.

Mrs. Bill Clinton is the ultimate insider.

3 posted on 06/28/2016 7:14:05 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Kaslin
I'll admit that I always thought that it would be Italy or Spain that would cause the collapse because of their poor financial practices. Seeing GB do it is refreshing. It was long overdue.

Go Trump!

4 posted on 06/28/2016 7:16:42 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Kaslin
Pat is on the mark, as usual. At issue, in all of this, is the cultural progress the peoples involved achieved over many centuries--threatened now by materialist nihilists, who have little real comprehension of all they want to sacrifice for imagined material benefits of the moment. Most of them are so corrupted by a form of "tunnel vision," they cannot even see the actual material costs of the material benefits they seek.

If Britain returns to being culturally British? The three preceding centuries tell us--really loud and clear--she will benefit materially, as well as spiritually & culturally, as a result of the vote last week. Of that there is absolutely no basis to doubt.

5 posted on 06/28/2016 7:26:02 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: FateAmenableToChange

Then vote Hillary.


6 posted on 06/28/2016 7:27:11 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Kaslin

To take it to a logical next step, can a TEXIT vote be far behind? Can we finally reverse the outcome of the War of Northern Aggression?


7 posted on 06/28/2016 7:37:44 AM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

It is stupid. I think it’s best to regard this as a negotiating position, not as his manifesto.

Trump is keen to renegotiate trade deals: so this may be part of his process - a way of putting the frighteners on countries who export to America.

What I’m saying is: don’t let this stop you voting for Trump!


8 posted on 06/28/2016 7:40:21 AM PDT by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: Kaslin
Palestinians want their own nation. Israelis want "a Jewish state."

Palestine wants what they have stole and Israel wants them to return what they stole.

9 posted on 06/28/2016 9:00:18 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: itsahoot

Palestinians already have a bunch of states....THEY’RE ARABS!


10 posted on 06/28/2016 9:02:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FateAmenableToChange
Tariffs are just stupid.

D@mn straight we should only pay them not charge them.

Even when the Great Reagan gave us tax cuts we really didn't get them because they just removed every tax deduction the working man had except the mortgage interest deduction and that helped the lenders more than us.

11 posted on 06/28/2016 9:05:53 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: itsahoot
It should be Palestine wants what it stole and Israel wants them to return what they stole

Israel is 100 percent correct.

12 posted on 06/28/2016 9:08:10 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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