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"‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’" Pat Buchanan paving the way for Trump
Politico Magazine ^ | 4.22.2017 | Tim Alberta

Posted on 04/22/2017 10:25:46 AM PDT by TakebackGOP

"This rhetoric—deployed again during his losing bid for the 1996 GOP nomination, and once more when he ran on the Reform Party ticket in 2000—not only provided a template for Trump’s campaign, but laid the foundation for its eventual success. Dismissed as a fringe character for rejecting Republican orthodoxy on trade and immigration and interventionism, Buchanan effectively weakened the party’s defenses, allowing a more forceful messenger with better timing to finish the insurrection he started back in 1991. All the ideas that seemed original to Trump’s campaign could, in fact, be attributed to Buchanan—from depicting the political class as bumbling stooges to singling out a rising superpower as an economic menace (though back then it was Japan, not China) to rallying the citizenry to “take back” a country whose destiny they no longer dictated. “Pitchfork Pat,” as he was nicknamed, even deployed a phrase that combined Trump’s two signature slogans: “Make America First Again.”"

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To: Luke21

Yes, and Limbaugh eulogized NAFTA at that time.

Buchanan was and is a true patriot not owned by the Establishment.


21 posted on 04/22/2017 2:26:35 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

Nice try Pat.


22 posted on 04/22/2017 2:48:12 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
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To: TakebackGOP

Buchanan would have been a good president but his words on Israel kept him out of contention.


23 posted on 04/22/2017 4:53:03 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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I went back and researched Buchanan after being called on my accusation that he is anti-Semitic.

Appears I was wrong and pretty much everything I found on the subject is blatant fake new / agitprop.

My apologies to Mr. Buchanan.


24 posted on 04/25/2017 3:09:36 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Kudos to your very rare type of (apologetic) post.

Good on you...for doing your own research....and for the apology.


25 posted on 04/25/2017 3:12:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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