Posted on 02/18/2016 3:51:44 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders stalked the snows of New Hampshire as the Abominable Snowmen, wreaking havoc on a craven establishment.
The political earthquake that rumbled the Granite State left the ruling elites of both parties buried in the rubble.
It's an appropriate time to reread the speech Pat Buchanan gave in 1999 when he left his lifelong home in the Republican Party to seek the Reform Party nomination for president. It is prophetic.
His speech, titled "The New Patriotism," predicted the mood today. "Our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey. On foreign and trade policy, open borders and centralized power, our Beltway parties have become identical twins. Both supported NAFTA and GATT and the surrender of our national sovereignty to the WTO."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“This year is our last chance to save our republic, before she disappears into the godless New World Order that our elites are constructing in a betrayal of everything for which our Founding Fathers lived, fought and died,” Buchanan said. “It is time for a New Patriotism, where America’s sovereignty is wholly and fully restored.”
Truer words were never spoken. Trump is the last man standing that will stop it.
The Reform Party could not be sustained without Perot, who wouldn’t even support “non-elitist” Pat Buchanan.
Pat left because conservatives were coalescing behind the second Bush, and he knew they would not listen.
Trump is Pat Buchanan, with a better haircut, more charisma, down to earth children.
“A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”
Pat was way ahead of his time.
I think that is why FR has gotten so heated lately: so long as American nationalism is tied to at least Constitutional originalism, American nationalism and American conservatism are, if not synonymous, overlapping and allied concepts.
Trump's run produces a polarity between the two, because Trump, while manifestly an American nationalist and in that sense a patriot, but exhibits statist urges contrary to the main strains of American conservatism (cf. his comments, including recent, on the use of eminent domain on behalf of moneyed interests, earlier flirtation with single-payer health care, and the general tenor of his programme that seems to ignore the Constitutional constraints on the Executive, and contains no elements explicitly directed at reigning in, much less shrinking the Federal Leviathan).
Seems everyday that Trump is supposed to be “channeling” somebody.
I just want a president who puts America first. Haven’t had one since 1988.
He doesn’t have Pat’s cleverness; he’s kind of like a Pat Buchanan for dummies.
That is the first time I’ve seen a good explanation of the phenomenon splitting the conservative movement this year.
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“......the general tenor of his programme that seems to ignore the Constitutional constraints on the Executive, and contains no elements explicitly directed at reigning in, much less shrinking the Federal Leviathan.”
And yet just last night Trump said he would cut the Dept. of Education, the EPA, reign in the “Military/Industrial Complex,” and root out waste, fraud, and abuse in other federal agencies. He said he can do this because he is beholden to no special interests unlike career politicians.
Sounds genuinely conservative to me following the intent of the Founders(i.e., Citizen Politicians rather than the corrupt, entrenched Political/Ruling Class we have now).
Finally. I would be warmer to his candidacy had he been saying things like that all along.
The open warfare between "True conservative Cruz supporters" and Trump's supporters on this forum is demonstrating that this assertion is nothing more than a maladroit exercise in question begging. First, define American conservatism. What many here take to be "American true conservative principles" are not identical to the Ten Principles for Conservatives espoused by Russell Kirk.
| You gotta love Pat Buchanan. He's been talking Trump issues for a long time. For old memories, here's a fun excerpt from his victory speech after his dramatic 1996 win in the NH primary. His words are awfully prophetic: Listen my friends, we have won a tremendous victory here tonight, but we no longer have the element of surprise. We had it in Alaska and Louisiana. All the forces of the old order are going to rally against us. The establishment is coming together, you can hear them right now. The fax machines and phones are buzzing in Washington D.C. But I'm telling the folks out in the country. They're going to come after this campaign with everything they've got. Do not wait for orders from headquarters, mount up everybody and ride to the sound of the guns! |
If Pat had been elected (Pipedream) we wouldn’t be in the human sewage pool we’re in now.
So true; I have disagreed with Pat on Israel but not on anything else!
Absolutely comical line! Most though couldn't understand it for sure.
Deal making is what the “New World Order” is all about.
ZIP! That little fact when right over your pointy little head didn’t it.
Thanks.
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