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“If his poll numbers hold, Trump will be there six months from now when the Sweet 16 is cut to the Final Four, and he will likely be in the finals.”
My prediction, in July of 2015, looks pretty good right now.
Herewith, a second prediction. Republican wailing over his prospective nomination aside, Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton like a drum in November.
Indeed, only the fear that Trump can win explains the hysteria in this city. Here is The Washington Post of March 18: “As a moral question it is straightforward. The mission of any responsible Republican should be to block a Trump nomination and election.”
The Orwellian headline over that editorial: “To defend our democracy, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention.”
Beautiful. Defending democracy requires Republicans to cancel the democratic decision of the largest voter turnout of any primaries in American history. And this is now a moral imperative for Republicans.
Like the Third World leaders it lectures, the Post celebrates democracy — so long as the voters get it right.
Whatever one may think of the Donald, he has exposed not only how far out of touch our political elites are, but how insular is the audience that listens to our media elite.
Understandably, Trump’s rivals were hesitant to take him on, seeing the number he did on “little Marco,” “low energy” Jeb and “Lyin’ Ted.”
But the Big Media — the Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times — have been relentless and ruthless.
Yet Trump’s strength with voters seemed to grow, pari passu, with the savagery of their attacks. As for National Review, The Weekly Standard and the accredited conservative columnists of the big op-ed pages, their hostility to Trump seems to rise, commensurate with Trump’s rising polls.
As the Wizard of Oz was exposed as a little man behind a curtain with a big megaphone, our media establishment is unlikely ever again to be seen as formidable as it once was.
And the GOP?
Those Republicans who assert that a Trump nomination would be a moral stain, a scarlet letter, the death of the party, they are most likely describing what a Trump nomination would mean to their own ideologies and interests.
Barry Goldwater lost 44 states in 1964, and the GOP fell to less than a third of Congress. “The Republican Party is dead,” wailed the Rockefeller wing. Actually, it wasn’t. Only the Rockefeller wing was dead.
After the great Yellowstone fire in the summer of ’88, the spring of ’89 produced astonishing green growth everywhere. 1964 was the Yellowstone fire of the GOP, burning up a million acres of dead wood, preparing the path for party renewal. Renewal often follows rebellion.
Republican strength today, on Capitol Hill and in state offices, is at levels unseen since Calvin Coolidge. Turnout in the GOP primaries has been running at levels unseen in American history, while turnout in the Democratic primaries is below what it was in the Obama-Clinton race of 2008.
This opportunity for Republicans should be a cause for rejoicing, not all this weeping and gnashing of teeth. If the party in Cleveland can bring together the Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich forces, the White House, Supreme Court and Congress are all within reach.
Consider. Clinton was beaten by Bernie Sanders in Michigan, and pressed in Ohio and Illinois, on her support for NAFTA and the trade deals of the Clinton-Bush-Obama era that eviscerated American manufacturing and led to the loss of millions of factory jobs and the stagnation of wages.
Sanders’ issues are Trump’s issues.
A Trump campaign across the industrial Midwest, Pennsylvania and New Jersey featuring attacks on Hillary Clinton’s support for NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China — and her backing of amnesty and citizenship for illegal immigrants, and for the Iraq and Libyan debacles — is a winning hand.
Lately, 116 architects and subcontractors of the Bush I and II foreign policy took their own version of the Oxford Oath. They will not vote for, nor serve in a Trump administration.
Talking heads are bobbing up on cable TV to declare that if Trump is nominee, they will not vote for him and may vote for Clinton.
This is not unwelcome news. Let them go.
Their departure testifies that Trump is offering something new and different from the foreign policy failures this crowd did so much to produce.
The worst mistake Trump could make would be to tailor his winning positions on trade, immigration and intervention — to court such losers.
While Trump should reach out to the defeated establishment of the party, he cannot compromise the issues that brought him where he is, or embrace the failed policies that establishment produced. This would be throwing away his aces.
The Trump campaign is not a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. It is a rebellion of shareholders who are voting to throw out the corporate officers and board of directors that ran the company into the ground.
Only the company here is our country.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”
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Buchanan whistles in the dark. The gap between the Judeo-globalist openBorders/neo-con wing of the Republiscam pty and the White Nationalist wing aroused by Trump is widening by the hour. It cannot be bridged. It is – for Whites – literally existential. Quite likely, the GOPe will steal the nomination from Trump @ ClevCon. Then the GOP will schism, and Mrs. Clinton will win the election easily. Or Trump will be the nominee, and the GOP will still schism. And Mrs. Clinton will still win the election. Shortly thereafter, Leviathan will hit the debtberg and, with her corrupt, incompetent, murderous hand on the tiller, ‘murka will swiftly move to a Spain, 1936 scenario: explosive racial, ideological, and rural/urban warfare
Trump is a populist. The election is about the people vs the donor class. Its not about which party will govern. Snowden put his finger on it when he said you can have Trump or Goldman Sachs.
You seem to have missed Florida.
Trump has many Jewish supporters.
The divide is not that simple.
Globalists and Nationalists, yes.
Media fools and free thinkers yes.
Evangelical cukcery and New York Bravado, yes.
Cold war democracy warmongers and non-interventionists, yes.
Welfare babies and grown ups, yes.
But lets not start an ethnic divide that isn’t backed up by the facts, it hurts Trump.
Like the EU and its treaty referendums … keep voting til the voters get it right.
So a Trump-Sanders ticket is not completely ludicrous?
I wonder if it’s any one thing that is driving the GOP (and others) insane over Trump
or if it’s several, like foreign policy and immigration and trade, etc…
but if I were to guess, I’d say it’s the flow of slop in the trough
the elites, and more importantly the legions of assorted minions, consider the Fed/US Treasury as the spigot of an unending gush of slop for the assorted pigs and leaches and ticks and remoras, all slurping to their heart’s content.
That’s what all that QE is about. Keeping Wall Street’s vampires with their fangs fastened snuggly in Main Street’s jugular, contented and happy with the flow. MIC too.
But what if someone were to slow the flow of slop in the trough?!
This anti-Trump hysteria is all those squealing porcine maws in the trough, seeing that someone might slow down the hemorrhaging of lucre, and the snout lifts up dripping with indignant rage.
That’s how I see it
Trump needs you on his foreign policy team, Mr. Buchanan.
Does anyone think the Anonymous threat to publicize information about Cruz’s alleged prostitution scandal will have any impact on the primaries?
Also, the Daily Kos has an interesting article on the DC Madame, whose attorney is seeking the release of the names of 815 clients, as well as records for 40 DC escort services on the basis that the information is relevant to the Presidential Election.
The RNC and the same media elites have shown their true colors and hypocrisy in the way the covered and handled a true grass-roots movement in the Ron Paul campaigns of 2008 and 2012..
Replace “Trump” with “Ron Paul” and this article is someone redeemed.
Trump is nothing more than an establishment mole whose sole purpose is to solidify a Clinton victory in 2016.
The destruction of Tweedle-GOP could have the unintended consequence of the collapse of Tweedle-Dem. If that were the case, a new American Nationalist Party could emerge; a party of social conservatism with an economic policy of “harmonization of interests”, i.e., which favors both the American wage and American industry.
At this point, the broad American electorate has one – and only one champion – and his name is Trump.
Is Pat. Buchanan is claiming to be the 51st Promised Jewish messiah? Since Israeli Jews want Hillary Clinton to be in the white House next year, I’m afraid the great majority of American voters would give a damn what GOP Buchanan think.
“From the man who married her grandmother to the man who married her daughter, from working room full of bar mitzvah guests on behalf of her husband’s political career to heading major pro-Israel events during her own, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered far from Jews,” Ron Kampeas, The Jewish Daily Forward, June 24, 2015.
On December 22, 2015, Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the Orthodox Union in an Op-Ed at The Jewish Week endorsed Hillary Clinton as the new US president, saying: I am an advocate for the former New York senator and secretary of state based on personal experience, as I have known her personally for years. In 1994, I was invited to accompany the Clintons to witness the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. During a luncheon in Jerusalem, the then-first lady expressed an interest in Jewish doctrine, which led to an interesting discussion, including her view on the moral significance of the Akeda, the binding of Isaac. In the course of that conversation and many subsequent interactions, I came to realize that she has an extraordinary intellect, an open mind, a clear vision for the United States, and a deeply rooted friendship with Israel and the American Jewish community.
https://rehmat1.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-next-us-president/
I’m sure the girls and boys in the Politburo … er, Congress will have something to say about all that. More money for the deep security state to keep us free to support the two party way of life we so proudly cherish.
These are dangerous times when a presidential candidate like Trump is under heavy fire for promoting policies that serve the vast majority of Americans and the national interest. Treason, both racial and economic, has prospered for far too long.
Even though a Trump presidency could finally help white people, he is no race realist or white nationalist, and he supports the continuation of anti-white male affirmative action policies which is a major disappointment. But I’m willing to overlook this if he indeeds deports illegal aliens, builds a wall, ends the anchor baby scam and dramatically reduces legal immigration or enacts a much needed moratorium.
The Republicans are nothing more than the donor class whore-hispandering-invade the world, invite the world-Israel first party while the insufferable Democrats are now the party of black and brown racial nationalism- illegal aliens and refugees of all stripes and hating whitey.
It seems to me that Pat Buchanan is himself the best GOP presidential candidate if Trump has proven himself to be too divisive by convention time. I’m being entirely serious. I’m serious but I’m also Canadian so it’s all really none of my business anyway.
Not necessarily; it depends on the extent of Trump’s delegate and vote %. If Trump wins a plurality but not a majority of delegates he has no claim for being the automatic nominee based on democratic principles.
What if Trump gets more delegates than either Cruz or Kasich but Cruz + Kasich together have more delegates? In that case, a Cruz/Kasich ticket would be more democratic.
“Lately, 116 architects and subcontractors of the Bush I and II foreign policy took their own version of the Oxford Oath. They will not vote for, nor serve in a Trump administration.”
The other night (Thursday, I believe), the lovely Megyn Kelly had on as a guest on her show a retired Lt. Col. Michael Waltz, described as a former Special Forces commander, who made the point that over 100 “foreign policy specialists” had signed a letter stating they would never serve in a Trump Administration, the matter you referred to above. Being the airhead she is without one ounce of journalistic experience (apart from being a TV “reporter”), the bimbo (as Trump likes to refer to her) asked not one question of her esteemed guest whether he supported the Iraq War of 2003 or the Libyan War of 2011 or whether he favored military action in Syria to allow the uninformed in her audience to assess his comments about the magic 100 who were opposed to Trump. Nor did she ask her guest to name one or more persons who were on the list of 100, so the better informed in her audience could judge the merits of his argument. It was as blatant example of irresponsible journalism as you are going to find. The woman doesn’t seem to have a clue about journalistic practices, which I learned back in high school as the editor of my school paper. Here’s the link to the Kelly File segment: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4804682848001/trump-campaign-pushed-to-name-foreign-policy-team/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips
BTW the bimbo kept repeating the canard that Trump had originally favored the Iraq War before opposing it, clearly referring to the grudging line he uttered on the Howard Stern show six months before the war began (without specifically identifying it as such) when it still wasn’t clear (at least publicly) that we were going to war with Iraq.
People should not be fools – Donald Trump NEVER attacks the Wall Street mega money types – he NEVER attacks the too big to fail banks – he NEVER attacks the Federal Reserve. Donald Trump is a New Yorker who chums with BIG money.
He attacks corporation lobbyists, but never their Wall Street owners. Never does he attack a mega rich speculator, who’s short-term horizon limits real investment.
America is not creating jobs because the Wall Street owners of corporations invest their money in the short-term. Carl Icahn makes money not jobs.
Big money Wall Street is the enemy of American jobs – PERIOD.
AND WOULD WIN IN A LANDSLIDE.
I’d call it an interesting third party option.
“Snowden put his finger on it when he said you can have Trump or Goldman Sachs.”
First, Snowden is a hero – a great human being and American.
Second, Hillary is Goldman Sachs – no question, she and her husband are puppets of the mega wealthy Jew machine.
Trump is a mix – he is a New Yorker who knows how to deal with Jews. But he is not Mr. Wall Street Money Bags – he is different, he is a builder of property. There is a difference between Wall Street speculative money changers who deal in paper assets – and builders of actual property. One is driven by greed – the other produces real life supporting enterprise. Good for Trump.
But there is another side. Trump has never attacked his NY money changer pals. He touts Carl Icahn as an example of who he would bring into government. Icahn is a Goldman Sachs clone – he is the personification of the mega rich money changer Jew. Icahn siphons money out of corporations – money that could create jobs. Icahn does NOT create good life sustaining jobs.
America needs real investment – not money changers — what is Trump going to do? He never attacks Wall Street, too big to fail banks, or the Federal Reserve.
For America to turn the corner – Wall Street has to change to real property building investment – PERIOD.
“Second, Hillary is Goldman Sachs – no question, she and her husband are puppets of the mega wealthy Jew machine.”
This obsessions with Joos is legendary here on this blog. I would hazard a guess that the average American does not share this insatiable appetite to blame Joos for every single problem known to human kind or associate them with being “owned”.
“Trump is a mix – he is a New Yorker who knows how to deal with Jews. But he is not Mr. Wall Street Money Bags – he is different, he is a builder of property.”
A builder of property who received hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from Citibank and Goldman Sachs. His debt in some cases was repaid, and in other cases he came out of bankruptcy.
“There is a difference between Wall Street speculative money changers who deal in paper assets – and builders of actual property. One is driven by greed – the other produces real life supporting enterprise. Good for Trump.”
Actually, Trump’s property deals are inherently greedy. Moreover, it is these “paper assets” that in part help fuel private sector job creation and technological innovations.
“Trump has never attacked his NY money changer pals.”
And so how is he any different?
“Icahn does NOT create good life sustaining jobs.”
Could you offer evidence to support this assertion?