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Home Front: Politix
Buchanan: GOP 'Under A Demographic Death Sentence'
2016-05-31
"Middle-class white folks" and "working class whites" are "culturally under assault," said Pat Buchanan on Saturday, speaking with left-wing CNN’s Michael Smerconish on the anchor's eponymous show.
'Cultural assault?' Well yes, but only for the past 50 years or so.
Speaking about an article he published last Thursday, Buchanan headline "The Great White Hope" described Donald Trump as appealing to the aforementioned whites as he said President Barack Obama appeals to blacks.

"Are the good times really over?" was being answered in the affirmative by disillusioned white voters, aid Buchanan.

Pointing to Trump’s record-breaking volume of total votes in the Republican presidential nomination process, Buchanan said the majority of the increase was driven by the whites he identified.

"Nationalism and populism," aid Buchanan, were primary drivers of Trump’s base of white supporters.

"Are you helping or hurting [Trump] when you cast his campaign in those terms?" asked Smerconish about the racial element of Buchanan’s analysis, a question not asked of Democrat appeals to racial, ethnic, gender, and other identity politics.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Though it is fair to post this article after JosephMendiola referenced it.

The bigger point, it seems to me, is that the things that made America great are not encoded in a single race or any other particular group, but are available to anyone willing to be law-abiding, tolerant, frugal, hard-working, independent, and creative in their approach to problem solving. Mr. Trump cannot save the white race -- which to Mr. Buchanan preferably would not include people of my faith despite the colour of my skin, or JosephM's, either -- without saving the culture that makes race completely irrelevant.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-05-31 18:48  

#3  I'll take content of character over anything that antisemitic degenerate has to say.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-05-31 18:17  

#2  Death sentence? Nah, the GOP is just becoming more selective in their appeal.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-05-31 16:31  

#1  In other news: Colonel Baden Powell announces 'Siege has ended, Mafeking has been relieved.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-31 06:20  

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