Nationalism and Populism Propel Trump

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

Nationalism and Populism Propel Trump

As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary.

Political analysts pointed out repeatedly that if all of the votes for Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson were added up, they far exceeded the Trump vote.

Why this sudden interest in arithmetic?

If the field can be winnowed, we were told, if Carson and Kasich can be persuaded to follow Bush and get out, if Cruz can be sidelined, if we can get a one-on-one Rubio-Trump race, Trump can be stopped.

Behind the thought is the wish. Behind the wish is the hope, the prayer that all the non-Trump voters are anti-Trump voters.

But is this true? Or are the media deluding themselves?

Watching these anchors, commentators, consultants and pundits called to mind the Cleveland Governors Conference of 1964.

Sen. Goldwater had just won the winner-take-all California primary, defeating Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, assuring himself of enough delegates to go over the top on the first ballot at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

But with polls showing Barry losing massively to LBJ, the panicked governors at Cleveland conspired to block his nomination.

Michigan Gov. George Romney and Pennsylvania Gov. Bill Scranton were prodded to enter the race. Scranton would declare his availability in San Francisco with a letter accusing Goldwater of hostility toward civil rights — Barry had voted against the 1964 bill — and of excessive tolerance toward right-wing extremists such as the John Birch Society.

And what became of them all?

Goldwater won his nomination and went down in a historic defeat, but became a beloved figure and the father of modern conservatism.

Of those who turned their backs on Goldwater that fall, none ever won a presidential nomination. Of those who stood by Barry that fall, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both would win the GOP nomination twice, and the presidency twice.

And the conservative movement would hold veto power over party nominees and become the dominant philosophy of the GOP.

Folks forget. Not only were there “liberal Republicans” and “moderate Republicans” back then, they dominated the landscape. Yet rare is the Republican today who would describe himself in such terms.

Which brings us back to the anti-Trump cabal.

While their immediate goal is to deny him the nomination, do they really think that if the party nominates Rubio, things can be again as they were before Trump? Do they not see that America and the West are undergoing a series of crises that will change our world forever?

Bernie Sanders is not all wrong. There is a revolution going on.

Late in the last century, when Robert Bartley was editorial editor, The Wall Street Journal championed a constitutional amendment of five words — “There shall be open borders.”

Bartley, who told colleague Peter Brimelow, “I think the nation-state is finished,” wanted U.S. borders thrown open to people and goods from all over the world. To Bartley and his acolytes, what made America one nation and one people was simply an ideology.

But what was silly then is suicidal today.

Whatever one may think of Trump’s talk of building a wall, does anyone think the United States is not going to have to build a security fence to defend our bleeding 2,000-mile border?

Given the huge trade deficits with China, Japan, Mexico and the EU, the hemorrhaging of manufacturing, the stagnation of wages and the decline of the middle class, does anyone think that if Trump is turned back, the GOP can continue on being a free-trade party financed by the Beltway agents of transnational corporations?

Absent some major attack on the homeland, do our foreign policy elites believe the American people would support new U.S. interventions to defeat, occupy and tutor Third World nations in liberal democracy?

Trump is winning because, on immigration, amnesty, securing our border and staying out of any new crusades for democracy, he has tapped into the most powerful currents in politics: economic populism and “America First” nationalism.

Look at the crowds Trump draws. Look at the record turnouts in Republican caucuses and primaries.

If Beltway Republicans think they can stop Trump and turn back the movement behind him, and continue on with today’s policies on trade, immigration and intervention, they will be swept into the same dustbin of history as the Rockefeller Republicans.

America is saying, “Goodbye to all that.”

For Trump is not only a candidate. He is a messenger from Middle America. And the message he is delivering to the establishment is: We want an end to your policies and we want an end to you.

If the elites think they can not only deny Trump the nomination, but turn back this revolution and re-establish themselves in the esteem of the people, they delude themselves.

This is hubris of a high order.

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hardscrabble farmer

That about sums it up.They have no idea how angry people really are.

starfcker
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starfcker

Robio the red eared cabana boy. Trump has to be nervous at the prospect of facing him one on one

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s Trump or more of the same.

Your choice.

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Mike Cernovich ‏@Cernovich

“Trump is lying to his supporters!” Probably, so does everyone else. At least we can watch him smash the establishment – a prize in itself.

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http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2016/02/donald-trump-democratic-socialist.html

America is not an idea. America is not a concept. America is not a proposition nation. One cannot, contra her past assertions, become a genuine American just because one happens to believe one thinks a certain way.
Is Trump going to govern like Obama? Or like the Bushes? Perhaps in many ways, but unlike the other Republican candidates, that is unlikely in regards to the only issue that matters at the moment: immigration. Trump is the only one talking about a wall, talking about stopping Muslim immigration, and even talking about deportations. And that, I strongly suspect, is the real fear of Trump opponents like Sarah. It’s not that they think he will govern like Obama on immigration and the American national interest, but they fear that he won’t.

That is why Trump is the only candidate who is worth supporting in 2016, despite being a member of the corporate-political elite, because he is an unpredictable rogue member of it and the only one that might – MIGHT – make a positive difference in the near future in the American national interest. Of course, he also may well not, but we already know beyond any shadow of a doubt that none of the other candidates are worth a damn.

He isn’t an ideal candidate, he probably isn’t even a good candidate, and he certainly isn’t a trustworthy candidate, but nevertheless, at this point, he is the only possible candidate.

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Note from Idaho
Note from Idaho

I watched the Rubio clip.

Everything those of us, out in fly-over country are sick of.

mike in ga
mike in ga

Trump is the only “America First” candidate. If we don’t take care of ourselves, no one else will and others’ will only kick us when we’re down.

Stucky

“It’s Trump or more of the same. Your choice.” ———- Anonymous

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— Absolutely LOVES the police (wants to make them stronger than ever)

— Loves, loves, loves the military (a trillion dollar budget just isn’t enough)

— Supports surveillance of mosques (Can anyone say NSA Surveillance State?)

— Has no problem with bail-outs (Remember free-market capitalism?)

— Says leaders are incompetent 9 times out of 10 – will sometimes say “maybe they’re corrupt” (Really!? Seriously?! Incompetent? There’s a lot wrong with our leaders but incompetence is not one of them. Anyone who has really studied the Oligarchy knows they know exactly what they are doing and are corrupt to the core.)

— Audit the Fed (how about abolishing it? How about respecting the Constitution?)

— Advocates bringing back torture (I’m sure the sick parasitical side show circus freaks that run our world were frothing at the mouth when they heard that one! Making America Great Again!)

— Talks of bombing the shit out of Isis (I’m sure the military industrial complex is quaking in its boots right now. How about talking about how the CIA, along with our “allies”, gave birth to Isis?)

— Iran is a threat/Assad is a bad guy/strong on Israel (the Neocons must be fuming)

— Generally supports War on Terror (no mention of how it is really a poor euphemism for the war on our civil liberties.)

– Edward Snowden is a traitor (not the people who continue to gut our Constitution and engaged in an illegal warrant-less wire-tapping program against U.S. citizens)

— No problem with vaccines per say – just thinks they should be spread out more (so much for any genuine opposition to the Rockefeller controlled medical-industrial cartel)

— No mention of the police state (big problem for the National Security State)

— Recent comments on Apple and FBI (again – the police state)

— Says nothing about the poisoning of our food supply with GMO garbage (How does Monsanto sleep at night?)

— Welfare state (how about arguing for making people independent and self-reliant again?)

— Getting rid of EPA and Department of Education (no such luck)

— No highlighting of recent Princeton and Northwestern University study concluding U.S. is an oligarchy– no mention of corruption of political process i.e. the false left-right paradigm

— Internet Surveillance (that pesky police state problem again)

— No mention of increasing loss of national sovereignty

— Executive Orders (arguing against Obama’s use but not use in general)

— Rarely mentions the Constitution

— Despite the lack of evidence thereof, suddenly claims to be a Christian — although he NEVER mentioned his faith previously in any of his books, articles, or interviews (An opportunist who says what people want to hear)

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OH, YEAH, BABY!!!! THE DONALD IS SOOOOOOOOOOO DIFFERENT!!!!! hahahaha

Stucky

Now all that being said, it often comes down to this ……….

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“Trump. He’s for real. No he isn’t. He means what he says. No he doesn’t. He’s a joke. He’s serious. He’s a liberator. No, he’s the next Mussolini. He’s sane and lucid. He’s off his rocker. He cares about people. He’s a racist. He’ll take American back where it belongs. He’ll drive it over a cliff.

Whatever you think about the man, his campaign has just acquired a new level of reality, after his victory in South Carolina. And the people who were looking to destroy him have greater reason to pursue their goal.

I’m not just talking about the Republican Party bosses. I’m talking about the Rockefeller Globalists, who are watching Trump attack their trade treaties, as he vows to bring jobs back to America. Those treaties are the Globalists’ holy of holies. They’re portals to an emerging world of much deeper poverty and suffering—and as such they’re vital to a new grotesque Globalist planetary order.”

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Above from this very very very good article ———- https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/trump-will-the-powers-that-be-destroy-him/

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…. this ……… the “fuck you” vote …… that the entire Republican establishment from peon Congressmen to powerful Globalists are 100% against Donald.

So damned intriguing!!

Always brings me back to “Why not Donald?” ……. even if it means I get fucked ….. just to have the pleasure of voting FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING REPUBLICANS!!!!!

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@Stuck…same here. the enemy of my enemy..this is will likely be one last shot a the #FUGOPVOTE .hope it does not turn out to be one yuge head fuck. STFU BL.

bb

Stucky ,go to your room and play with your blow up sex doll .

hardscrabble farmer

“No mention of increasing loss of national sovereignty”

He’s mentioned that quite often, in fact it is one of the central planks of his platform.

Dirtscratcher
Dirtscratcher

I don’t think Trump is the solution to this county’s woes, but he’s no worse than anyone else. This country’s doomed either way. I’m just relishing the sight of Trump sticking his thumb in the eye of the establishment in general and the GOP in particular. He’s like the band playing on the Titanic; if we’re gonna go down we might as well be entertained.

Stucky

bb

You’re more obsessed with my wee-wee than I am. Fuckoff and go play with your pussy, aka little bb.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Flash- BITE ME ! I have not said one sideways word about Donald Chump and I still catch shit from you. Shame, Shame.

starfcker
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Kill Bill
Kill Bill

The Rump is employing a form of rhetoric that leaves the audience deciding what he means.

He said about Fiorina: “Look at that face!’ he cries. ‘Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”

tRump doesnt say shit about shit. How he plans to accomplish anything that comes out of his perennialy pursed lips. He never callef Fiorina horse face or ugly or anything. The tRumpeteers filled it in. He is coopting his foolish flock of sheople.

Book it. Scarily Cliton is no better with her “progressive” sophist rhetoric

DRUD
DRUD

And why should I be concerned about the “loss of National Sovereignty?” What exactly does the USA!USA!USA!’s National Sovereignty provide me, aside from the divine pride we all feel as members of the one truly indispensable sovereign state? This is just another example of just how much our paradigms must change. Answer me, what does the Nation State paradigm provide the average citizen of these nation States? Nothing of import. Local govts have much more to do with our day-to-day lives than federal, but all we ever seem to discuss (loudly at that) is the fed govt. Why? Is it because that is all they want us discussing?

If one is really willing to think it through, rationally and dispassionately, all the Nation State system does is provide larger resources and far more power to the psychopaths at the top.

Another way of looking at it is this: we are deep into the fist Fourth Turning of the nuclear age. The USA!USA!USA! is the biggest and baddest empire in world history and will surely play a pivotal role in this Fourth Turning. Every other Fourth Turning in our history has been accompanied by a massive, bloody, all-out war…do you really think this one will be different? The stakes are not “Who will be our next president?” but rather “Will we have WWIII, which will most likely turn nuclear or will we have Civil War II, which would most likely not?” This is the real “lesser of two evils” question of our time.

The ONLY peaceful way out I can see is more like what happened in the USSR…an economic collapse leading to a political collapse leading to breaking up of the empire. This is what we all should be rooting for…not any of the current crop of assclowns running for president.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

I enjoy watching Trump from a professional salesman’s p.o.v. He knows what buttons to push to rile up the crowd, but when you reflect on the content there is none.

How people could vote for such a snake oil salesman with a zero track record is amazing to me. Meantime, there’s Bernie Sanders who has done his best for the little guy since at least 1991 and has proven he knows how to get things done.

Trump, on the other hand, may know how to fleece the masses as he did with his “Trump University”. And he may know how to work the Bankruptcy court to flip his failures onto the backs of others. But does he even know how our system of government works in practice? I think not.

We’re being set up for a fascist dictatorship.

Don’t vote against your own best interests.

Joey
Joey

The gentler dictatorship already exists. The bankist-corporatist-statist .

So, it’s already in motion. Momentum set for the future. By the above.

Then, remove the word gentler.
Andthereyouhaveit.

So, I guess you stick to the devil you already know?????

Sonic

“Absent some major attack on the homeland, do our foreign policy elites believe the American people would support new U.S. interventions to defeat, occupy and tutor Third World nations in liberal democracy?”

And therein lies the crux of what worries me. We’ll attack ourselves to fix that little problem.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Hillary and O are soon to be forcing or penalizing citizens to buy US gov IOU’s-MYRA.No country wants to buy US debt.So notice cashless,and MYRA.Sounds like collapse soon and end of petro dollar.Bet congress exempt like B O CARE.Secede!

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