Posted on 03/25/2016 7:05:26 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Thursday on Fox News Channels Hannity, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan discussed what the eventual nomination of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump could mean to the GOP.
Buchanan told fill-in host Tucker Carlson it would open up a lot of new possibilities for the Republican Party, especially if he is able to ultimately win over those who are currently supporting GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz .
I think if you get Trump as the nominee, his potential is going to those states where he did well Michigan and I think hes going to do well in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Buchanan said. Go to those Rust Belt states, go after the Sen. Bernie Sanders Democrats, you know, white working-class folks, Reagan Democrats, and go and put together that kind of coalition. If he can get the Cruz people with him, I think you have the makings of a different, new, exciting, robust party.
Buchanan was not as optimistic for Cruz as the nominee. He argued Cruz would lose many of Trumps current supporters in a general election.
Frankly, some of them came out to vote against Trump, but most of them came out to vote for Trump because hes a populist conservative, hes going to secure the border, make America great, Buchanan added. All of these things as positive, optimistic outlooks. I think if Cruz takes it away from Trump, I think an awful lot of those folks just go home.
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Yes, but the party seems to be turning toward a populist/agrarian philosophy - which Pat (and now Trump) advocate.
You got it backward. Trump wants to RE industrialize the USA. Are you ok?
If Trump is NOT the nominee, The Establishment wins.
The Establishment will ALWAYS ignore the voters and do ANYTHING to maintain their power base for BIG $$$$'s.
That's what they do.
Only Trump has the ability to not only stand up to the Crony Socialists in the Establishment but to destroy them.
And THAT is why they fear Trump.
High tariffs will not reindustrialize anything.
The USA had very high tariffs up to 1913. I wonder how we ever industrialized with those in place? /sarc
I voted for Buchanan once.
Now there's a reason to raise tariffs if there ever was one.
Income taxes replaced tariffs. Which do you prefer?
... or he could just stay caught up in high school name calling ...
Is that the only choice?
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