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Posted on 07/20/2024 3:25:24 AM PDT by Phoenix8
…But as the 2024 Republican National Convention in the garrison state of downtown Milwaukee winds down, a more definitive transformation of the Trumpist creed is under way, chiefly in the selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate.
Trump’s own listless, meandering, and astoundingly long acceptance speech on the convention’s last night only made it all the more clear that the MAGA torch is being passed to a more focused and clear-eyed generation of ideologues, with Vance as their de facto leader. But the party’s fulsome embrace of a blood-and-soil brand of economic nationalism, as epitomized by Vance’s speech before the convention on Wednesday, shows that it’s Pat Buchanan who is the ideological forefather of the 21st-century Republican Party.
Buchanan, of course, was the former Nixon speechwriter who harnessed the restive white-nationalist animal spirits of the conservative movement for his insurgent presidential campaigns in 1992 and ’96. Among other things, Buchanan’s presidential runs launched the culture wars, as both an expression and an organizing principle of conservative mass politics. His fiery denunciations of waves of corporate downsizing at the behest of the financial industry presaged the Trump GOP’s mythical, but tirelessly promoted, alignment with the interests of the white working class. Even his paleocon broadsides against the Israel lobby looked ahead to the open America First sympathies of the Trump movement leadership. For all the reservoirs of digital ink spilled on the hallowed self-made origins of Vance’s unique American success story, the Hillbilly Elegy author is plainly the spiritual offspring of the Buchanan movement.
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Pat Buchanan is 85 and not dead.
“Are we going to get a new red-and-black Party flag?”
Where do idiots like you come from?
Is pledging allegiance to the flag fascist, or nazi, which is what nationalism is?
Blood and soil are traditional ways sto describe homeland, goes back to Biblical times.
“Pat Buchanan is far too old now (85) but maybe Vance and Trump can help get us back to our real America roots?”
They could have re-played his acceptance speech.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/patbuchananreformpartyacceptance.htm
Pat is still with us.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
The vast majority our pols are Deep State.
“Is pledging allegiance to the flag fascist, or nazi, which is what nationalism is?”
Before my coffee. I did not mean to say pledging allegiance to the flag is facism or nazism; it is nationalism.
The entire country was more conservative that is socially I think.
Pat was super intelligent and he was always right on immigration. He predicted what has happened with letting all those illegals in.
The neocons hated him.
I recall reading his book Death of the West. Must be,,what?…20 , 25 years ago?
Almost eerie how close we are today to what he predicted.
The main conflict in American politics is no longer between Reagan/Buckley conservatism vs. New Deal/Great Society liberalism. I have great nostalgia for those days. It is between America as founded as a Judeo-Christian republic and a materialistic New World Order
“...generation of ideologues...”
You see, only the communist scumbags at The Nation are allowed to be ideologues.
Message to Chris Lehmann: You haven’t seen anything yet. The GOP is the party of William Wallace. We demand FREEDOM from the globohomo deep state overlords. The unelected bureaucrats in Washington DC, along with the filthy propaganda media members (like you) are going to be eliminated. In a few more months, you communist swine are going to get what you deserve. /spit
Pat put America First … even ahead of Israel.
That’s a good thing.
I think Silverleaf was being sarcastic.
GOP’s mythical, but tirelessly promoted, alignment with the interests of the white working class.
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ONLY the White, working class? The Nation is lying...yet again. Of course the problem is that they believe their own lies like most myopic Leftists. I suppose this is why they continuously get their panties in a wad over “White nationalism”.
“Nonsense from the Left.
Pat was anti Israel and tool of the left to split the vote.
The MSM is pulling out all the stops to save Biden.”
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Agreed.
It is Trump’s party.
I will, however, agree with another poster who said that the Dems are Stalin’s party now.
Or is it Mad Mo the sand pirate's party?
Maybe a little of 5th column A and a little of 5th column B.
Thanks, it was weird reading all these posts about him as dead.
Wow. I just stepped back from reading this article, looked again, and realized that this is a Leftist steaming pile of crap.
I disagree with the article and stopped reading when I came to TBE talking point, long and listless speech. That seemed to be the spaghetti they were hoping would stick to the wall, yesterday.
President Trump did not give a rally speech. He entered into a conversation with the American people laying out our nations problems, and the ability through his leadership we have to overcome them to bring prosperity to every American regardless of race, creed or walk of life. The left wanted the equivalent of mean tweets. So this is the best they can do. In that vein I dismiss the article.
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