[Pelham]

“but his is pretty obviously a Never-Trumper at best.”

If you are going to be wrong, you might as well be wrong all the way.

Gottfried and his good friend Sam Francis were calling for an America first populism for years, and Trump is the real world expression of their writing. They were voices in the wilderness battling the neoconservative globalism that had taken over the GOP after Reagan left office. They were Trump before there was a Trump. There is little doubt that Trump was influenced by them, Francis in particular.

[a fool in paradise]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/paul-gottfried-dont-call-me-the-godfather-of-those-alt-right-neo-nazis-im-jewish Paul Gottfried: Don’t call me the ‘godfather’ of those alt-right neo-Nazis. I’m Jewish Richard Spencer might use my work, but my differences with him are a matter of public record

Author of the article:Special to National Post Publishing date:Apr 17, 2018 • Last Updated 2 years ago

Fulford writes that I was “one of those few intellectuals who support Donald Trump.” Indeed, I may have been launched into cosmic significance by that monster. It is true that I once thought that Trump represented a break with the American uni-party consensus and its disastrous policies. I’m not sure about that anymore.