By Julia Hahn writing for Breitbart News
* * *
In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Pat Buchanan
declared that Trump’s rise represents a rejection of 25 years of "Bush Republicanism,"
an ideology which Buchanan says has destroyed America’s once-great
manufacturing core, flooded the country with low-skilled workers, and drained
the treasury with ill-advised foreign adventures in the Middle East.
* YEP. AND THAT'S JUST FOR A START!
“In the GOP nomination race, the chickens of a quarter
century of Bush Republicanism have come home to roost,” Buchanan told
Breitbart. “Trump’s triumphs to date are due to his recognition of, and
identification with, the Middle American revolt against Bush family ideology
and policy, and what it has produced.”
(*NODDING*)
Buchanan explained that “America is rejecting the Bush
immigration policy,” which has “proffered amnesty” to “12 million illegals…
because it said the United States is helpless to do anything about their
presence here.”
* FOLKS NEED TO READ ABOUT EISENHOWER'S SUCCESSFUL
"OPERATION WETBACK."
“America’s establishment has failed America,” Buchanan
said, “The single clearest message in the presidential campaign of 2015-2016 is
that the American people would like to cleanse our capital city of its ruling
class.”
(*STANDING UP TO APPLAUD*)
Buchanan, former speechwriter and White House adviser to
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is legendary amongst conservatives for his
insurgent Republican presidential campaigns during the 1990s, which laid the
intellectual groundwork for the conservative nation-state movement.
Buchanan has been credited with presaging the revolt
which has manifested itself in the 2016 election and for correctly predicting
the consequences of mass migration, ideological free trade, and military
adventurism — predictions which were largely dismissed at the time he made
them.
* I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A HUGE BUCHANAN FAN!
Last week, Trump seemed to scandalize the collective
consciousness of professional Republicans with his Saturday debate performance
in which he launched a full-throated assault on Bush Republicanism.
Trump repudiated all three pillars of Republican
globalism: namely, military adventurism, immigration multiculturalism, and
trade globalism.
* AND FOR THIS I SAY... "GOD BLESS DONALD
TRUMP!"
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who shares Bush’s goals for more
global trade, more immigration, and more foreign adventurism, was quick to
defend Bush’s enduring legacy during the debate. “He kept us safe, and I am
forever grateful to what he did for this country,” Rubio said earnestly as he
was met with uproarious applause from the GOP donor-stacked audience.
* THE "PACKED" CROWD - PICKED BY THE GOP
ESTABLISHMENT INSIDERS.
Immediately following the debate, "professional
Republicans," including writers at the National Review, pounced on the
opportunity to once again — now more emphatically — proclaim Trump ineligible
of being the Party’s nominee.
(*SNORT*)
* BUNCH OF FRIGGIN' LOSERS...
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
Many even sought to portray Trump as a radical “truther” —
a claim which seems particularly bizarre considering that Trump is the only GOP
candidate to propose a pause on Muslim migration — repeatedly citing, as his
reasoning for doing so, his desire to prevent future terror attacks carried out
by Muslim migrants, such as 9/11.
* I WOULDN'T SAY "MIGRANTS."
(*SHRUG*)
* "TERRORISTS" - "ISLAMIC TERRORISTS"
- WILL DO.
Reports described Trump’s assault on Bush as “heretical”
to Republicans. However, contrary to what the writings of professional
Republicans may suggest, Buchanan explains that the Republican electorate — and
the American people in general — have resoundingly rejected the Bush legacy
and, more broadly, have rejected Republican globalism.
* A HUGE SEGMENT OF THE GOP BASE HAS. THE PROBLEM,
HOWEVER, IS THAT THE REASON WHY THE GOP IS LARGELY A RINO PARTY IS BECAUSE THE
PARTY IS PACKED WITH... RINOs.
(*SHRUG*)
“America is rejecting the Bush immigration policy that
refused to secure our border, allowed 12 million illegals to enter, then
proffered amnesty because it said the United States is helpless to do anything
about their presence here,” Buchanan said.
* TRUE! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE LARGELY REJECTING THE
BUSH IMMIGRATION POLICY... BUT THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT STILL CLINGS TO
THIS FAILED AND FRANKLY SUICIDAL POLICY!
Buchanan has warned of the Balkanization that will ensue
as a result of the immigration agenda of Bush Republicanism, writing in 2008
that Bush’s immigration policies “may turn this republic into a Tower of
Babel.”
* AND IT LARGELY HAS... (PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH.)
According to a 2009 Wall Street Journal report, under
George W. Bush’s presidency, the U.S. created three million new jobs. Yet at
the same time, under Bush’s presidency, 10.5 million new immigrants (legal and
illegal) settled in the United States — meaning that Bush brought in three
immigrants for every one job he created.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
During that time, the number of working-age, native-born
Americans not working exploded.
(*NOD*)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ current
population survey, the number of working-age Americans without a job increased
by 10.6 million between the fourth quarter of 2000, right before Bush took
office, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, right before he left office.
Pew polling data shows that 92% of the Republican
electorate — and 83% of the American electorate as a whole (Republicans and
Democrats) — would like to see America’s immigration level frozen or slashed.
While many GOP candidates have argued that it is not
possible to round up and deport 12 million people residing unlawfully in the
country, Trump has distinguished himself from the field with his
nation-state-focused worldview: “We either have a country or we don’t.”
* AGAIN... GOD BLESS DONALD J. TRUMP IN THIS REGARD!
Buchanan, who has not made any endorsement in the race,
explained that the American people are rejecting the trade globalism of Bush
Republicans that “carted off what was once the greatest manufacturing base the
world had ever seen”:
"Trump’s success is a repudiation of a Bush ‘free-trade’ policy that allowed China to run up $4 trillion in trade surpluses against us since George H. W. Bush took office, and to cart off what was once the greatest manufacturing base the world had ever seen.Compare Detroit and Shanghai today to see the fruits of 'free trade.'Bush trade policy brought down the curtain on America’s economic independence. We now depend on foreign and sometimes hostile nations for the necessities of our national life."
Indeed, the number of American manufacturing jobs
decreased by 3.4 million under George W. Bush’s presidency as he continued to
push for more global trade agreements and opposed efforts to crack down on
illicit trading practices.
As Bush said at the time, “I believe that the entry of
China… into the WTO will strengthen the global trading system and expand world
economic growth.”
* YEAH... HOW'S THAT WORKED OUT, FOLKS?
(*SNORTING AS I SHAKE MY HEAD*)
Under President Bush, the trade deficit nearly doubled,
the trade deficit with China tripled, and the national debt of the United
States also nearly doubled.
Trump has distinguished himself from Bush Republicanism
with his vociferous opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a pact which
both Cruz and Rubio cast a vote to fast-track and have previously praised.
* TELL THE WHOLE STORY, PAT; CRUZ VOTED AGAINST TPP.
Rubio has not retracted his prior support of TPP, whereas
Cruz has straddled the line by saying he opposes “in its current form” the pact
he once described as “historic” and said would “mean greater access to a
billion customers for American manufacturers, farmers and ranchers.”
* CRUZ OPPOSED IT BY VOTING AGAINST IT!
(*SNORT*)
* FOLKS... DEPRESSING THAT EVEN BUCHANAN CAN'T BE TOTALLY TRUSTED...
(*SIGHING*)
Cruz and Rubio also opposed efforts to combat foreign
currency manipulation, something Trump has warned is being used by foreign
countries to put American factories out of business.
* I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE IN CRUZ'S CASE. (NOTICE
BUCHANAN DOESN'T CITE SPECIFICS.)
By a margin of nearly five-to-one, the American people
believe these so-called free trade deals lower wages rather than raise them,
according to Pew polling data.
* AND THEY'RE RIGHT! (AT LEAST AS THE VAST MIDDLE CLASS
ARE CONCERNED!)
Buchanan continues:
“Trump’s success also represents a repudiation of a reflexively interventionist foreign policy that produced the longest wars in our history, cost us 6,000 dead, 40,000 wounded, and trillions of dollars. And the price tag rises monthly. We are now mired down in five wars — Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen — and for what?Contrast where we were when Ronald Reagan went home, with where we are, and it is easy to understand the revolutions raging in both parties; America’s establishment has failed America. The single clearest message in the presidential campaign of 2015-2016 is that the American people would like to cleanse our capital city of its ruling class.”
* AMEN!
Interestingly, while Buchanan has been described as
remarkably prescient, particular statements from George W. Bush may strike some
as reflecting a fundamental misunderstanding of the views of the American
electorate.
Former President Bush has articulated positions which
seem antithetical to the “Trump phenomenon.” For instance, in 2008 Bush said,
“I’m troubled by isolationism and protectionism … (and) another ‘ism,’ and
that’s nativism.”
(*SNORT*)
* THIS FROM THE GUY WHO FAMOUSLY SAID, "YOU'RE
EITHER FOR US OR AGAINST US."
Bush doubled down on this sentiment in 2011, declaring,
“If you study history, is that there are some ‘isms’ that occasionally pop up.
One is isolationism and its evil twin protectionism and its evil triplet
nativism.”
* IN LARGE PART... GEORGE W. BUSH WAS A MORON. (AND NO
DOUBT STILL IS.)
Ironically, these issues are arguably the central focus
of the 2016 election.
Trump has surged in the polls with his campaign platform
that rejects the Bush “isms” of military adventurism, trade globalism, and
migration multiculturalism — the latter, most emphatically, by rejecting the
donor class assumption that Muslim migration is a civil right.
(*STANDING OVATION*)
In perhaps just one remarkable display of Buchanan’s
foresight, in 2008 the conservative thinker penned a column responding to
Bush’s so-called “evil” -isms, which have now come to define the 2016 election.
Buchanan observed that there is nothing about Bush Republicanism that is
particularly attractive to American conservatives. He said:
“After the judges and tax cuts, what is there about Bush
that is conservative? His foreign policy is Wilsonian. His trade policy is pure
FDR. His spending is LBJ all the way. His amnesty for illegals is Teddy
Kennedy’s policy… In smearing as nativists, protectionists and isolationists
those who wish to stop the invasion, halt the export of factories and jobs to
Asia, and stop the unnecessary wars, Bush is attacking the last true
conservatives in his party.”
* YEP. PAT WAS RIGHT THEN... AND HE'S RIGHT NOW.
* FRANKLY... AT THIS JUNCTURE... CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE
CALLING FOR A ONE-ONE-ONE TRUMP v. CRUZ DEBATE. LET THEM DEBATE... MANO A MANO.
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