How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996"

The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty

[FreedomPoster]

Similarly to how in 2008 it was McCain’s turn, and in 2012, Romney.

What is amazing to me is that the party establishment for a party that is generally anti-union, for some very good reasons, uses a union seniority model for pushing establishment candidates. It simply defies all logic.

[bigtoona]

Great article! Spot on. Lets try something different, no more lawyers and polititians. America first! American citizens first!

[LucienCA13]

Great article. Thanks for posting.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I guess if you said/did all that, you could call yourself Bernie Sanders.

[sauropod]

bflr

[ConservativeDude]

this is a great article.

I agree with it in principle, and with Trump, in principle 100%.

I do think we have every right to be concerned about a few things, however. A tariff alone is not going to solve anything (though it sure does send a message, which is important). What this article sets forth is more of a comprehensive reworking of the two parties’ ideologies and policies to keep America great and strong but in the 21st century. That’s why this is great...because it is a comprehensive look at a comprehensive problem. The point being, if you have to proceed piecemeal, as is usually the case when you are revolutionary, you have to make sure that each incremental piece pushes the ball forward and does not, on its own, create more misery. Tariffs are in fact dangerous. But in the right comprehensive approach, they are also indispensable.

In any event...fantastic article.

[Third Person]

Michael Brendan Dougherty has been on a roll

[x]

Four years after Perot ran for the first time? Four years after Buchanan ran for the first time? Not really much of a prediction.

People talk about GHW Bush being a RINO or not a conservative. What they miss is that the Washington conservative Establishment liked Bush when he ran for reelection. They had criticisms, especially about taxes, but more opposition to Bush came from more populist quarters for populist reasons. Immigration and trade were powerful issues that Washington conservatives didn't want to deal with.

It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that. There was a split opening up even then.

[Pikachu_Dad]

A trace of Marxism ?!?

What the heck are ya’ll smoking.

“He was an intellectual disciple of James Burnham’s political realism, and Francis’ political analysis always had a residue of Burnham’s Marxist sociology about it. “

[infowarrior]

I rather enjoy watching many of these throw temper tantrums every day anymore.

They aren't so much temper tantrums as they are 'Trumper tantrums'...

the infowarrior

[ConservingFreedom]

But the response of the predominantly-white class that Francis was writing about has mostly been one of personal despair. And thus we see them dying in middle age of drug overdose, alcoholism, or obesity at rates that now outpace those of even poorer blacks and Hispanics.

What's-his-name at NR has been flamed mercilessly for making exactly this observation.