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Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?

By Patrick J. Buchanan The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA appears to be a lead indicator of a coming revolution far beyond Reagan’s. “Trump Taps Climate Skeptic For Top Environmental Post,” said The Wall Street Journal. “Climate Change Denial,” bawled a disbelieving New York […]

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Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape. We can see clearly now the profit and loss statement from more than three decades of accommodating and appeasing China, since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made their historic […]

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Fake News and War Party Lies

By Patrick J. Buchanan “I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler’s government — by the planners of the New World Order,” FDR told the nation in his Navy Day radio address of Oct. 27, 1941. “It is a map of South America as Hitler proposes to reorganize it.

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Populist-Nationalist Tide Rolls On

By Patrick J. Buchanan Now that the British have voted to secede from the European Union and America has chosen a president who has never before held public office, the French appear to be following suit. In Sunday’s runoff to choose a candidate to face Marine Le Pen of the National Front in next spring’s […]

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An ‘America First’ Trump Trade Policy

By Patrick J. Buchanan Donald Trump’s election triumph is among the more astonishing in history. Yet if he wishes to become the father of a new “America First” majority party, he must make good on his solemn promise: To end the trade deficits that have bled our country of scores of thousands of factories, and […]

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A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead

By Patrick J. Buchanan After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the play’s end, the Aaron Burr character, speaking for the cast and the producers, read a statement […]

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Is Obama’s World a Utopian Myth?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: “(W)e are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ … “(T)he future of […]

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A Trump Doctrine — ‘America First’

By Patrick J. Buchanan However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border. Yet those views are hemlock to the GOP foreign policy elite and the liberal Democratic interventionists of the Acela Corridor. Trump promised an “America First” […]

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VIDEO: President-Elect Trump on 60 Minutes

“…Lesley Stahl: Do you think that your election is a repudiation of his presidency? Donald Trump: No, I think it’s a moment in time where politicians for a long period of time have let people down.

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Memo to Trump: ‘Action This Day!’

By Patrick J. Buchanan “In victory, magnanimity!” said Winston Churchill. Donald Trump should be magnanimous and gracious toward those whom he defeated this week, but his first duty is to keep faith with those who put their faith in him.

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