Pat Buchanan, the conservative columnist who is so far to the right that Donald Trump once called him a “neo-Nazi,” is out with a new column this week praising the president’s “total mastery of his party” and applauding him for “leading Republicans away from globalism to economic nationalism.”
“Celebrating protectionism, hailing ‘America First!’ in a virtual State of the Union address—it doesn’t get any better than this,” he wrote.
“Watching Republicans rise again and again to hail Trump,” Buchanan said, “called to mind the Frankish King Clovis who, believing his wife’s Christian God had interceded to give him victory over the Alemanni, saw his army converted by the battalions and baptized by the platoons.”
Before the largest audience of his political career, save perhaps his inaugural, Donald Trump delivered the speech of his life.
And though Tuesday’s address may be called moderate, even inclusive, Trump’s total mastery of his party was on full display.
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Watching Republicans rise again and again to hail Trump called to mind the Frankish King Clovis who, believing his wife’s Christian God had interceded to give him victory over the Alemanni, saw his army converted by the battalions and baptized by the platoons.
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Celebrating protectionism, hailing “America First!” in a virtual State of the Union address – it doesn’t get any better than this.
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Yet, in leading Republicans away from globalism to economic nationalism, Trump is not writing a new gospel. He is leading a lost party away from a modernist heresy – back to the Old-Time Religion.
To open-borders Republicans who backed amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants, Trump had this message, “We will soon begin the construction of a great wall along our southern border.”And the cheering did not stop.
