Heterodox
Buchanan understands Trump very well, because Trumpism is a kind of Pat Buchananism reborn – an anti-free trade, protectionist, anti-open borders paleoconservatism.Yes, there are plenty of toxic aspects to Trumpism and Buchananism, and Trump seems to want a more militaristic foreign policy than Buchanan did (without going to the neocon extreme), but at the heart of Trumpism is: the failure of neoliberalism in America. Part of that failed neoliberalism was open borders and mass immigration,...
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