BUCHANAN TO GOP: TOLD YOU SO!
‘What we warned against in the 1990s has come to pass in the 21st century’
WND.com
3/17/2016
Pat Buchanan is putting the Republican Party and the conservative movement on notice: Listen to Donald Trump or become irrelevant.
“What we warned against in the Buchanan campaigns of the 1990s has come to pass in the 21st century,” Buchanan told WND. “Trump’s success in the Republican Party is due to how he has seized the issue of illegal immigration, condemned the trade deals designed to strip the nation of the greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen, and challenged compulsive intervention in unending Middle East wars where no vital interest of the United States was imperiled. Trump is directing a powerful searchlight on the consequences of the failed Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama policies on all these fronts.”
Buchanan, a New York Times bestselling author, television commentator and syndicated columnist, electrified America during his presidential campaigns in 1992 and 1996. When running for office, Buchanan sounded many themes that would sound familiar to Trump supporters, including opposition to so-called “free trade,” the need to stop illegal immigration, especially from Mexico, and skepticism of American military interventions that don’t serve American interests.
Like Trump in 2016, Buchanan was able to shock the political world with a victory over the Republican establishment in the 1996 New Hampshire primary. However, Buchanan only won three other states that year, eventually losing the Republican nomination to Bob Dole, who then lost to Bill Clinton.
Unlike Buchanan, Trump’s victory in New Hampshire was only the beginning of his march to the front of the Republican pack. On Tuesday, Trump won every Republican primary except Gov. John Kasich’s home state of Ohio. He even crushed Marco Rubio by almost 20 points in Rubio’s home state of Florida, knocking the onetime conservative favorite out of the race.
Buchanan believes Trump’s success shows his own message has only grown more relevant with time, as the negative effects of mass immigration and economic globalization have continued to punish the country. He argues it is time for the American Right to shift away from old solutions and embrace a different kind of conservatism than that which operated under George W. Bush.
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