4/3/2018 - Pat Buchanan Townhall.com
On many issues --
naming Scalia-like judges and backing Reagan-like tax cuts -- President Trump
is a conventional Republican.
Where he was
exceptional in 2016, where he stood out starkly from his GOP rivals, where he
won decisive states like Pennsylvania, was on his uniquely Trumpian agenda to
put America and Americans first -- from which the Bush Republicans recoiled.
Trump alone pledged to
kill amnesty and secure the border with a 30-foot wall to halt the invasion of
our country.
Trump alone pledged to
end the de-industrialization of America and bring back our lost factories and
lost jobs.
Trump alone pledged to
end the democracy-crusading and extricate us from the endless Mideast wars into
which George Bush, Barack Obama and the War Party had plunged the nation.
And, upon how he
delivers on these three uniquely Trumpian issues will hang his political fate
and history's assessment of whether he was a good, great or failed president.
Where this city stands
is not in doubt. It is salivating to see Trump's presidency broken, his agenda
trashed, and him impeached. This city looks to Robert Mueller as the Moses of
its deliverance from the tyrant whom an uncomprehending electorate imposed upon
it.
While Trump's support
among his deplorables is holding -- indeed, he is creeping back up in the polls
-- the outcome of the battle to bring him down remains in doubt.
Consider. Trump's
border wall was treated like a disposable bauble in the GOP Congress' $1.6
trillion budget deal. Cities and whole states are declaring themselves
sanctuaries for people here illegally and defying U.S. authorities' requests
for help in deporting accused criminals.
A "caravan"
of a thousand Central Americans is passing through Mexico, aided by the
authorities, and headed for the U.S. border.
When they arrive, rely
upon it, the anti-Trump media will be there to bewail any transgressions by the
Border Patrol.
The hysterical reaction
to news that the 2020 census will include a question, "Are you a U.S.
citizen?" testifies to what this is all about.
America's elites are
adamant that our country should vanish inside a new Third World nation that
resembles in its racial, religious and ethnic composition the U.N. General
Assembly. The old God-and-country America the people loved they detest.
Trump is likely the
last president who will try to preserve that country. If he leaves office with
the border unsecured, it is hard to see what stops the Third World invasion,
even as it is also coming across the Mediterranean into Europe.
"The Camp of the
Saints" is no longer a dystopian novel.
Enoch Powell's warning,
50 years ago, about mass migration into Europe, "Et thybrim multo
spumantem sanguine cerno," "I see the River Tiber foaming with much
blood," is now seen as prophecy.
And Trump's agenda of
economic nationalism -- restoring the industrial dynamism and self-sufficiency
America knew from Lincoln to Reagan -- faces relentless hostility from
institutionalized power.
Against Trump stand
corporate elites, whose profits and stock options depend on producing outside
America, and the managerial class of a New World Order that runs the EU, U.N.,
IMF, World Bank and WTO.
Yet if global elites are
hoarding the largest slice of the wealth of nations and a goodly slice of their
political power, one senses that they are an unloved crowd, and they are
sitting on a volcano.
The third unique Trump
issue was his commitment to extricate us from the Middle East wars into which
Bush and Obama had entrenched us, and to keep us out of any new wars. Trump
also pledged to reach out to Vladimir Putin and to Russia to avoid a second
Cold War.
Those who voted for him
voted for that foreign policy.
And if Trump is drawn
into new wars with Iran or North Korea, or reaches 2020 with U.S. forces still
fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya, he will be perceived as
having failed.
Yet the resistance of
this city to giving up its vision of U.S. global hegemony is broad and deep,
for that vision is almost a defining mark of our foreign policy elites. For
them to give it up would be like death itself.
The stunned reaction to
Trump's suggestion last week that we will be leaving Syria after ISIS's
caliphate is destroyed, testifies to how much their identify is tied up in this
vision.
That Trump would accept
an end to Syria's civil war, with Bashar Assad still in power, is intolerable.
Yet how we can reverse that reality without putting thousands of U.S. combat
troops into Syria is unexplained. In the last analysis, then, it is upon three
questions that the Trump presidency will be judged:
Did he secure America's
borders? Did he restore the industrial might of America? Did he take us out of
and keep us out of any more neocon wars?
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