I agree with the articles premise. I worked on the Buchanan campaign here in Louisiana in 1996, and ran as a delegate for him. Trump has effectively captured many of the issues espoused by “Pitchfork Pat.”
However, in 1996 it was Bob Dole’s “turn,” and that didn’t work out too well, did it?
Yes, our little Republican primary voters demanded Bob Dull so they could then defeat him in the fall.
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.