Buchanan had vowed to build a fence along the border with Mexico to keep immigrants out, railed against the “globalist” elite, promised to rip up deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and made “America First” his campaign slogan. As it happened, even Trump thought Buchanan was too far off the deep end to be president. When the two of them briefly ran against each other for the 2000 nomination of Perot’s Reform Party, Trump denounced Buchanan as “a Hitler lover,” a “racist,” and an “anti-Semite” who “doesn’t like the Blacks, he doesn’t like the gays” and was appealing
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