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What Trump has wrought
Posted By Patrick J. Buchanan
On 04/04/2016 @ 7:39 pm
As Wisconsinites head for the polls, our Beltway elites are almost giddy. For they foresee a Badger State bashing for Donald Trump, breaking his momentum toward the Republican nomination.
Should The Donald fall short of the delegates needed to win on the first ballot, 1,237, there is growing certitude that he will be stopped. First by Ted Cruz; then, perhaps, by someone acceptable to the establishment, which always likes to have two of its own in the race.
But this city of self-delusion should realize there is no going back for America. For, whatever his stumbles of the last two weeks, Trump has helped to unleash the mightiest force of the 21st century: nationalism.
Transnationalism and globalism are moribund.
First among the issues on which Trump has triumphed We will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it! is border security.
Republican candidates who failed to parrot Trump on illegal immigration were among the first casualties.
For that is where America is, and that is where the West is.
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Consider Europe. Four months ago, Angela Merkel was Times Person of the Year for throwing open the gates to the huddled masses of the Middle and Near East.
Merkels Germany is now leading the EU in amassing a huge bribe to the Turks to please take them back, and keep them away from the Greek islands that are now Islams Ellis Island into Europe.
Africas population will double to 2.5 billion by 2050. With 60 percent of Africans now under 25 years of age, millions will find their way to the Med to cross to the Old Continent where Europeans are aging, shrinking and dying. Look for gunboats in the Med.
If immigration is the first issue where Trump connected with the people, the second is trade.
Republicans are at last learning that trade deficits do matter, that free trade is not free. The cost comes in dead factories, lost jobs, dying towns and the rising rage of an abandoned Middle America whose country this is and whose wages have stagnated for decades.
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Economists who swoon over figures on consumption forget what Americas 19th- century meteoric rise to self-sufficiency teaches, and what all four presidents on Mount Rushmore understood.
Production comes before consumption. Who owns the orchard is more essential than who eats the apples. We have exported the economic independence Hamilton taught was indispensable to our political independence. We have forgotten what made us great.
China, Japan, Germany the second, third and fourth largest economies on earth all owe their prosperity to trade surpluses run for decades at the expense of the Americans.
A third casualty of Trumpism is the post-Cold War foreign policy consensus among liberal interventionists and neoconservatives.
Trump subjects U.S. commitments to a cost-benefit analysis, as seen from the standpoint of cold national interest.
What do we get from continuing to carry the largest load of the defense of a rich Europe, against a Russia with one-fourth of Europes population?
How does Vladimir Putin, leader of a nation that in the last century lost its European and world empires and a third of its landmass, threaten us?
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Why must we take the lead in confronting and containing Putin in Ukraine, Crimea and Georgia? No vital U.S. interest is imperiled there, and Russias ties there are older and deeper than ours to Puerto Rico.
Why is it the responsibility of the U.S. Pacific Fleet to defend the claims of Hanoi, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Brunei, to rocks, reefs and islets in the South China Sea against the claims of China?
American hawks talk of facing down Beijing in the South and East China Seas while U.S. companies import so much in Chinese-made goods they are fully subsidizing Beijings military budget.
Does this make sense?
Patriotism, preserving and protecting the unique character of our nation and people, economic nationalism, America First, staying out of other nations wars these are as much the propellants of Trumpism as is the decline of the American working and middle class.
Trumps presence in the race has produced the largest turnout ever in the primaries of either party. He has won the most votes, most delegates, most states. Wisconsin aside, he will likely come to Cleveland in that position.
If, through rules changes, subterfuge and faithless delegates, party elites swindle him out of the nomination, do they think that the millions who came out to vote for Trump will go home and say: We lost it fair and square?
Do they think they can then go back to open borders, amnesty, a path to citizenship, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and nation building?
Whatever happens to Trump, the country has spoken. And if the establishment refuses to heed its voice, and returns to the policies the people have repudiated, it should take heed of John F. Kennedys warning:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
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#3: SOSO To: tpaine, TooConservative, All (#0)
The answer IMO is no.
The next POTUS will be a DRat, with perhaps DRat control of the Senate. There will be no wall. There will be no backing away from the TPP agreement. There will be no stiffening against Putin or Iran or even likely ISIS. We will reset, reset, reset (read cave and cower like Merkle's Germany and pay protection money).
Why? Because the majority of We The People are not those that Buchanan describes. There is not enough support across the land to support the "peaceful" revolution. The only question at this point is what next?
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 11:36:08 Reply Private Reply
#4: tpaine To: VxH (#1)
You agree with Buchanan? -- Amazing..
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 11:43:07 Reply Private Reply
#5: Rufus T Firefly To: SOSO (#3)
You're probably correct. People are always more comfortable with "the devil they know", and presently that devil is the establishment D/R party.
People have been predicting an economic collapse for years, but with 19 trillion debt and no end in sight it's likely to be sooner rather than later. When the free government cheese runs out and anarchy ensues, anything is possible.
Rufus T Firefly posted on 2016-04-05 11:50:58 Reply Private Reply
#6: tpaine To: SOSO, y'all (#3)
You speak as a wannabe member of a 'majority of the people'.
Dream on.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 11:54:05 Reply Private Reply
#7: SOSO To: tpaine (#6)
You too are a card carrying member of Morons R Us. How you come to that conclusion strongly indicates that you have your head planted firmly up your ass. Worse yet, when the Drats do take over all three bracnhes of the Fed government you will be wandering around in a daze muttering as droll drips down your chin "wa happened? I didn't see that coming". What will you do then when your so-called peaceful revolution flops? Ask for a do over?
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 11:59:26 Reply Private Reply
#8: Stoner To: SOSO (#3)
See the John F. Kennedy quote.
But, ultimately, our nation will go the way of the Roman Empire !
Stoner posted on 2016-04-05 12:00:29 Reply Private Reply
#9: tpaine To: Rufus T Firefly (#5)
Trump just mentioned that collapse possibility, and of course infered that his presidency could control it.
I doubt it, -- but I'd rather see him try, rather than Hillary.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 12:03:00 Reply Private Reply
#10: SOSO To: Stoner (#8)
So sadly the Great Experiment is dead. My daughter barely knows, nor much We are well on that way and seem to be accelerating the journey. We daughter barely knows of, or has much understanding, of the country in which I was raised. My grandkids will have no idea whatsoever. I understand that as history clearly teaches us this is the nature of things. Societies are living things that are ever changing and societies come and go though than may retain the same name. As for my generation, we screwed the pooch as we knew better but let it happen anyhow without much of a fight.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 12:13:32 Reply Private Reply
#11: SOSO To: Stoner (#10)
But, ultimately, our nation will go the way of the Roman Empire !
So sadly the Great Experiment is dead. We are well on that way and seem to be accelerating the journey. My daughter barely knows of, or has much understanding, of the country in which I was raised. My grandkids will have no idea whatsoever.
I understand that as history clearly teaches us this is the nature of things. Societies are living things that are ever changing and societies come and go though than may retain the same name. As for my generation, we screwed the pooch as we knew better but let it happen anyhow without much of a fight.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 12:15:32 Reply Private Reply
#12: tpaine To: SOSO (#7)
You speak as a wannabe member of a 'majority of the people'.
Dream on...
We've had takeovers from your Drats before, and survived. -- You clowns really can't do a lot during your temporarily deranged takeovers. -- We the armed/rational People see to that...tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 12:19:58 Reply Private Reply
#13: ConservingFreedom To: tpaine (#0)
Now let's see to it that applying the force is done by someone better intellectually and temperamentally equipped for the job than Trump, and send Trump home with our thanks.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-05 12:22:29 Reply Private Reply
#14: tpaine To: Stoner, Y'ALL (#2)
And as usual, we may be the only two here at LF that think so...
Thanks..
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 12:25:05 Reply Private Reply
#15: tpaine To: ConservingFreedom (#13)
Millions of your peers have voted for Trump, and no one in this election cycle is going to take his place...
Learn to live with that fact...
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 12:31:42 Reply Private Reply
#16: SOSO To: tpaine (#12)
First of all, moron, I am the furthest thing from a DRat. Second, it's not just the DRats that have steered the ship, they had plenty of help from the REPS. Third, once the DRat agenda is firmly entrenched and codified by the courts they will have control for at least a generation or two. By then you and your armed Rambo friends that might still be around will not even go down in a blaze of glory. You will not even be a pimple on the ass of history.
Every day those of us who understand the dangers of open borders, stupid trade polcies, stupid military policies, stupid financial policies, creeping socialism, decaying moral values, and, the rest of the garbage that is being foisted upon us by both DRats and REPs are becoming weaker as a force for change, not stronger. Every day the chances of success of a peaceful revolution being effective become less and less.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 12:32:33 Reply Private Reply
#17: tomder55 To: ConservingFreedom (#13)
He probably should've set his sights a little lower . I most likely would've supported him if he was trying to unseat il duce Cuomo in NY .
tomder55 posted on 2016-04-05 12:41:15 Reply Private Reply
#18: tpaine To: SOSO, y'all (#16)
Your own words belie that claim.
There you go, outing yourself by calling me, and my fellow armed citizens, - 'Rambo'.
Trump agrees with those policies, -- so why can't you accept his candidacy?
And your defeatism helps?
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 12:49:06 Reply Private Reply
#19: VxH To: tpaine (#4)
Even a stopped clock along the tracks in Nuremberg station was right twice a day back circa April 30 1945.
The Uniparty acts as though the natural due penalty for its perversion can be avoided.
History demonstrates otherwise.
VxH posted on 2016-04-05 12:57:52 Reply Private Reply
#20: Stoner To: SOSO, tpaine (#16)
Sadly, the majority of voters who know more about what some GD basketball player had for breakfast on the third day, of the 5th month, 10 years ago, and can tell you what his shoe size is, knows NOTHING about what is going on!! And if they even bother to vote, will vote based on what some radio / or TV personality tells them, or by their party affiliation.
With our future looking so bleak, one must remember what Thomas Jefferson said:
" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
Our nation is like the Titanic, and after hitting the iceburg, asshole politicians, shit head media types, & dumb ass citizens are below the waterline drilling more holes in the hull!!
As they say in ebonics: We Be Fu*ked !!
BLOAT ! Also, pray hard & often !!
Stoner posted on 2016-04-05 12:58:05 Reply Private Reply
#21: Stoner To: tpaine (#14)
I suspect there are a few more than us.
And thank you for posting the article. I was going to post it myself, until I saw you had.
I have long liked Pat! I was practically drummed out of the Repub party when I supported him over daddy Bush.
Thanks again for posting!
Stoner posted on 2016-04-05 13:05:42 Reply Private Reply
#22: VxH To: Stoner (#20)
"EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE, THIS IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE
STATEDARPAnet TO EFFECT AND ON A GENERAL PLAN""AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"
VxH posted on 2016-04-05 13:08:35 Reply Private Reply
#23: tpaine To: VxH (#19)
You agree with Buchanan? -- Amazing..
What does the history of the end of the war in Europe have to do with Buchanan's opinions?
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 13:16:19 Reply Private Reply
#24: SOSO To: tpaine (#18)
{sigh} F*ck off, moron.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:37:29 Reply Private Reply
#25: SOSO To: tpaine (#18)
{sigh} I have a carry permit, moron.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:38:32 Reply Private Reply
#26: tpaine To: SOSO (#24)
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 15:41:31 Reply Private Reply
#27: SOSO To: tpaine (#18)
{sigh} Even defeatism is a more rational and realistic than your Rambo shoot em up meme, moron. And you know damn well that I have been proscribing civil disobedience as the next step in your so-called peaceful revolution. That's right, just say no at the local, city and state level. But Rambos such as yourself and your shoot em up self-proclaimed posses of liberty haven't got the collective IQ to figure that out. So, again, f*ck off, moron. Go back to honing your 20" hunting knife.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:43:45 Reply Private Reply
#28: tpaine To: SOSO (#25)
BFD.. Act like it then.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 15:44:12 Reply Private Reply
#29: SOSO To: tpaine (#26)
I don't not tolerate self-made fools, morons or assholes well. You are the trifecta.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:44:52 Reply Private Reply
#30: SOSO To: tpaine (#28)
Yeah, BFD, moron.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:45:26 Reply Private Reply
#31: SOSO To: Stoner (#20)
Be my guest and knock yourself out. The more rational and highly more likely effective approach is for mass civil disobedience at the local, city and state level combined with a massive effort to take back our schools from the so- called progressive, liberal, racist, leftwing. If we could be successful at that and eliminate the leftist, secular progressive brainwashing of the next 1-2 generations of K-12ers there may be a chance for something worthy of our FFs surviving.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 15:50:53 Reply Private Reply
#32: ConservingFreedom To: SOSO (#27)
prOscribing or prEscribing?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-05 15:56:44 Reply Private Reply
#33: tpaine To: SOSO (#27)
And your defeatism helps?
Senseless comment, and I don't do pussy 'memes'.
My, you do rant on, Rambo style..
Never had a long knife, but we were issued a bayonet, in the 502nd.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 15:57:19 Reply Private Reply
#34: nolu chan To: tpaine (#0)
http://buchanan.org/blog/lock-establishment-cleveland-125077
nolu chan posted on 2016-04-05 15:57:49 Reply Private Reply
#35: SOSO To: ConservingFreedom (#32)
Sorry, prescribe. We should just tell the PTB in both the DRat and REP parties that we are fed up and aren't going to take it anyone and not comply with their BS any more. Concurrently, we should organize a massive effort to gain control of our public schools and stop the leftist brainwashing of our kids.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 16:00:45 Reply Private Reply
#36: tpaine To: SOSO (#30)
BFD.. Act like it then.
You must be about 12 years old.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 16:01:40 Reply Private Reply
#37: SOSO To: tpaine (#33)
Of course you do. The Rambo shoot em up posse meme is the biggest pussy meme of all.
"Never had a long knife, but we were issued a bayonet, in the 502nd."
Good, go shove it up your ass, moron.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 16:02:39 Reply Private Reply
#38: tpaine To: nolu chan (#34)
Go Pat, go!!
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 16:06:30 Reply Private Reply
#39: Roscoe To: SOSO (#37)
You're a one trick pony.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-05 16:08:18 Reply Private Reply
#40: tpaine To: SOSO (#37)
Never had a long knife, but we were issued a bayonet, in the 502nd.
Wow, now who's acting like a 12 year old Rambo?
Did you used to live in the Yukon?
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 16:11:30 Reply Private Reply
#41: SOSO To: tpaine (#40)
I speak in your tongue, the tongue of mindless Rambos that have no viable solution to the problems we face other than do it my way or I'll shoot.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-05 16:14:51 Reply Private Reply
#42: tpaine To: SOSO (#41)
Hmmmm ----
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 16:27:41 Reply Private Reply
#43: Vicomte13 To: SOSO (#3)
Oh, but there IS a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans!
In foreign policy, both are interventionist Israel-firsters who intend to keep the Cold War going, so no difference there.
But on domestic policy and economic policy, there is a great deal of difference.
Democrats oppose the Second Amendment. Republicans weakly support it. Obama and cities have demonstrated that through executive and state action, gun rights can be seriously challenged. Interestingly, it was the Supreme Court that stood up, 5-4, and re-found the right to keep and bear arms. But if the Democrats win, that majority will shift, 5-4, then probably 6-3 and in the other direction. And the Democrats will wipe out gun rights. Congress alone can stop that, because the President will veto, and the Supreme Court will stand behind the President on Executive Orders.
So if Trump loses, foreign policy will continue as-is, but gun rights will rapidly be curtained.
Secondly, the Democrats will save Obamacare. They'll do it with taxation and regulation, and once again, the Supreme Court will uphold them.
With control of the Supreme Court, the President will be able to rule without Congress, because we already know that the Republicans won't fight to the death - they CAN'T, because in the end the GOP donor class is propped up by trillions in government contracts, and the only power Congress has is to shut the government by refusing to fund it. But THAT means wiping out Republican contractors. They'll never do it.
Taxes will go up, and if that causes a decline in employment and business activity, the government will take over and regulate more and more.
Vicomte13 posted on 2016-04-05 16:48:08 Reply Private Reply
#44: Tooconservative To: tpaine (#0)
I really don't see it. But perhaps that is just my own tiny circle of people. Even so, I don't see any real groundswell for typical nationalism of any flavor.
This point seems like wishful thinking from Pat.
I still don't grasp why Mexico is supposed to pay to build a wall for a border we refuse to seal tight. How exactly is that Mexico's fault?
Tooconservative posted on 2016-04-05 17:01:57 Reply Private Reply
#45: VxH To: tpaine (#23)
VxH posted on 2016-04-05 17:17:23 Reply Private Reply
#46: tpaine To: TooConservative (#44)
I see it here in rural northern California, and in the construction/contactor/sportsman types we get up here as visitors. -- We had quite a few from Quincy who drove 100 miles to Reno for the Trump rally..
Mexico has been defacto urging its laborers (and allowing central-Americans) to jump our border for work and welfare, -- for at least 80 years, - regardless of our bracero policies.
Instead of a wall, I'd like to see the USA annex Mexico. --It's an underdeveloped goldmine, ruled by idiots.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 17:35:10 Reply Private Reply
#47: tpaine To: VxH (#45)
What does the history of the end of the war in Europe have to do with Buchanan's opinions?
You mean you don't have the balls to call Buchanan an anti-Semite clearly, --- so you get cute about history and clocks?
Whatta man..
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 17:46:22 Reply Private Reply
#48: misterwhite To: TooConservative (#44)
Because they do nothing to stop the illegal flow of their citizens into our country. Worse, they try to facilitate it. Even worse, they send us their criminals, unemployables, and pregnant women.
They do nothing to stop the flow of illegal drugs into our country.
They refuse to shut down the construction of tunnels on their side of the border.
misterwhite posted on 2016-04-05 18:05:38 Reply Private Reply
#49: VxH To: tpaine (#47)
Quack, waddle...
www.google.com/search?q=Buchanan+Anti+semitism
...common knowledge Clock.
VxH posted on 2016-04-05 18:23:09 Reply Private Reply
#50: VxH To: tpaine (#46)
And that's different from the NWO Open Borders meme how, exactly?
personalliberty.com/the-n...d-its-open-border-gambit/
VxH posted on 2016-04-05 18:43:31 Reply Private Reply
#51: tpaine To: VxH (#49)
Whatta man..
Uncommon googlepussy. ---- With a BIG 'meme' fetish.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-05 18:59:35 Reply Private Reply
#52: VxH To: tpaine (#51)
VxH posted on 2016-04-07 16:45:20 Reply Private Reply