To understand the problems with Trump and Trumpism, read this essay by Sam Francis on the Pat Buchanan movement. Rush Limbaugh read the first half on air to explain the appeal of Trump in 2016. But now the second half is the more relevant now than ever /1 chroniclesmagazine.org/from-household…
"Yet, if Buchanan has one major flaw as a spokesman for and an architect of the new Middle American political identity that transcends and synthesizes both left and right, it is that he exhibits a proclivity to draw back from the implications of his own radicalism." 2/
"Buchanan's loyalty to the GOP is touching, especially since almost no Republican leader or conservative pundit has much good to say about him, and the loudest mouths for the 'Big Tent' are always the first to try to push him out of it." 3/
"Buchanan, for all the radicalism of his ideas and campaign, remains deeply wedded to the Republican Party and to a conservative political label, and he tends to greet criticism of his deviations from conservative orthodoxy with affirmations of doctrine." 5/
Read this essay right now. 6/
Read it, because the Trump movement is falling into the same trap as the movements that preceded it: rationalizing what was supposed to be populism with establishment conservatism. 7/
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