Trump Can Beat Clinton in November
Pat Buchanan, who parrots the patrician line regarding plebs on the dole, so to speak, just as though the rich were not rich because the law creates and maintains capitalism, private property, and the market, thus bringing into the world both the haves and the have-nots, annoyingly pretends plute support for the GOP with its agenda of tax cuts and slash-the-state is not just as self-interested as prole support for the Dems.
Trump, of course, is no conservative and is likely the least dangerous of the Republicans seeking the nomination, considered as a class enemy to ordinary folks.
But his positions on culture war issues, so far as he isn't just being a demagogue, are too far to the right for the American left, though also too far to the left for the American right.
Pat Buchanan, like many of Trump's supporters, is drawn to him as a friend of white folks, men, and Christians, though he is more moderate on those things than PB, and because he is an opponent of immigration and free trade.
These seem to be the things that chiefly offend the left about Trump, and the last two deeply annoy the Wall Street right.
PB is far from being the only writer of Republican comment who sees his appeal, though those who prioritize Wall Street's war on the American worker and everything progressivism has put in place to protect him over a century of effort are enraged and alarmed.
Meanwhile, TAC gives Bernie the best grade on foreign policy.
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