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Pat Buchanan ‘Trump is the great White Hope’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h1 class&equals;"entry-title"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210101&semi;">Donald Trump is &OpenCurlyQuote;The Great White Hope’<&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210101&semi;"><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;&&num;8230&semi;but&comma; ehm&excl; Uncle Pat&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t quite agree that you are speaking for the rest of us<&sol;span><&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;"> when you proclaim that &&num;8216&semi;affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class&comma; who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime&&num;8217&semi;&period; <&sol;span><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;">Hoping that Donald Trump will be &&num;8216&semi;The great white hope&&num;8217&semi; is pure political  jingoism&comma; without merit&period; Trumps antics and utterances represent the most reprehensible strands of extremist nativism in American politics has experienced in the last 2 decades and does not advance the cause of the &&num;8216&semi;white working class&&num;8217&semi;&comma; in an increasingly pluralist and multicuktural society<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;">Agreed&comma; our society needs to pay close attention to the increasingly marginalized middle class&comma; but it take serious mental jujitsu to argue that the white middle class is marginalized by the latino or African American community&comma; as opposed to being the direct result of profit maximization practices of the corporate sector&comma; aided by slack enforcement of regulations by government<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The movement to reinstate <span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr"><strong>McCarthyism as normal in our political discourse&comma; incidentally<&sol;strong> <&sol;span><&sol;strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr">highlighted by Buchanans &&num;8217&semi;92 presidential run&comma;<&sol;span><strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr"> is not the path to social and economic progression<&sol;span><&sol;strong>&period; It is even more disingenous to argue that the &&num;8216&semi;Buchanan light&&num;8217&semi; brand&comma; which Donald Trump is pandering in 2016&comma; is any more helpfful to the nation or the republican party&comma; for that matter&period;<&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;"><strong>You read Pat Buchanan&&num;8217&semi;s view and be the judge&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"entry-title"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27185" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;buchanan-trump6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Buchanan-Trump6" width&equals;"700" height&equals;"245" &sol;>&OpenCurlyQuote;The Great White Hope’<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content">&NewLine;<h3><strong>The Buchanan Rant<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans&period; Unlike every other age group&comma; unlike every other racial and ethnic group … death rates in this group have been rising&comma; not falling&period;”<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The big new killers of middle-aged white folks&quest; Alcoholic liver disease&comma; overdoses of heroin and opioids&comma; and suicides&period; So wrote Gina Kolata in The New York Times of a stunning study by the husband-wife team of Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Deaton could cite but one parallel to this social disaster&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Only H&period;I&period;V&period;&sol;AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27171" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;buchanan-trump9&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Buchanan-Trump9" width&equals;"2048" height&equals;"1536" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr">Back in 1992&comma; Pat Buchanan gave a notably bitter speech full of anti-gay and sexist venom meant to rouse evangelical voters from their slumber<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27179" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;buchanan-trump11&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Buchanan-Trump11&period;jpg" width&equals;"5132" height&equals;"3334" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr">Stoking anger among the party base&comma; renegade candidate Pat Buchanan leaveraged the anger to upset a sitting president in the 1992 New Hampshire GOP primary<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Middle-aged whites are four times as likely as middle-aged blacks to kill themselves&period; Their fitness levels are falling as they suffer rising levels of physical pain&comma; emotional stress and mental depression&comma; which helps explain the alcohol and drug addiction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27247" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;buchanan-trump14&period;png" alt&equals;"Buchanan-Trump14&period;png" width&equals;"1585" height&equals;"508" &sol;>&&num;8216&semi;The Great White Hope&&num;8217&semi;  crusaders Bchanan &&num;8217&semi;92&comma; Donald Trump &&num;8217&semi;16<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>But what explains the social disaster of white Middle America&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;First&comma; an economy where&comma; though at or near full employment&comma; a huge slice of the labor force has dropped out&period; Second&comma; the real wages of working Americans have been nearly stagnant for decades&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Two major contributors to the economic decline of the white working-class&colon; Scores of millions of third-world immigrants&comma; here legally and illegally&comma; who depress U&period;S&period; wages&comma; and tens of thousands of factories and millions of jobs shipped abroad under the label of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;globalization&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content">&NewLine;<h6><strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27257" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;joe-mccarthy1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Joe-McCarthy1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"750" &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span class&equals;"irc&lowbar;su" dir&equals;"ltr">Sen Joseph McCarthy saw &&num;8216&semi;communists&&num;8217&semi; lurking behind every shadow in the &&num;8217&semi;40s and &&num;8217&semi;50s<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Another factor in the crisis of middle and working class white men is the plunging percentage of those who are married&period; Where a wife and children give meaning to a man’s life&comma; and to his labors&comma; single white men are not only being left behind by the new economy&comma; they are becoming alienated from society&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s not surprising&comma;” Barack Obama volunteered to his San Francisco high-donors&comma; that such folks&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;get bitter&comma; they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them…”<br &sol;>&NewLine;We all have seen the figure of 72 percent of black children being born out of wedlock&period; For working class whites&comma; it is up to 40 percent&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A lost generation is growing up all around us&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the popular culture of the ’40s and ’50s&comma; white men were role models&period; They were the detectives and cops who ran down gangsters and the heroes who won World War II on the battlefields of Europe and in the islands of the Pacific&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They were doctors&comma; journalists&comma; lawyers&comma; architects and clergy&period; White males were our skilled workers and craftsmen — carpenters&comma; painters&comma; plumbers&comma; bricklayers&comma; machinists&comma; mechanics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27264" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;buchanan-trump17&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Buchanan-Trump17&period;jpg" width&equals;"1440" height&equals;"907" &sol;>Violence is common at Trump campaign events&comma; as he lights the fire of seperatism in this year&&num;8217&semi;s presidential campaign<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>They were the Founding Fathers&comma; Washington&comma; Adams&comma; Jefferson and Hamilton&comma; and the statesmen&comma; Webster&comma; Clay and Calhoun&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lincoln and every president had been a white male&period; Middle-class white males were the great inventors&colon; Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison&comma; Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They were the great capitalists&colon; Andrew Carnegie and John D&period; Rockefeller&comma; Henry Ford and J&period; P&period; Morgan&period; All the great captains of America’s wars were white males&colon; Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston&comma; Stonewall Jackson and Robert E&period; Lee&comma; U&period;S&period; Grant and John J&period; Pershing&comma; Douglas MacArthur and George Patton&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;What has changed in our culture&quest; Everything&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The world has been turned upside-down for white children&period; In our schools the history books have been rewritten and old heroes blotted out&comma; as their statues are taken down and their flags are put away&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Children are being taught that America was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;discovered” by genocidal white racists&comma; who murdered the native peoples of color&comma; enslaved Africans to do the labor they refused to do&comma; then went out and brutalized and colonized indigenous peoples all over the world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Hollywood films and TV shows&comma; working-class white males are regularly portrayed as what was once disparaged as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;white trash&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Republicans are instructed that demography is destiny&comma; that white America is dying&comma; and that they must court Hispanics&comma; Asians and blacks&comma; or go the way of the Whigs&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Since affirmative action for black Americans began in the 1960s&comma; it has been broadened to encompass women&comma; Hispanics&comma; Native Americans the handicapped&comma; indeed&comma; almost 70 percent of the nation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;White males&comma; now down to 31 percent of the population&comma; have become the only Americans against whom it is not only permissible&comma; but commendable&comma; to discriminate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When our cultural and political elites celebrate &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;diversity” and clamor for more&comma; what are they demanding&comma; if not fewer white males in the work force and in the freshman classes at Annapolis and Harvard&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class&comma; who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime&quest;&rcub;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Angry white male” is now an acceptable slur in culture and politics&period; So it is that people of that derided ethnicity&comma; race&comma; and gender see in Donald Trump someone who unapologetically berates and mocks the elites who have dispossessed them&comma; and who despise them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Is it any surprise that militant anti-government groups attract white males&quest; Is it so surprising that the Donald today&comma; like Jess Willard a century ago&comma; is seen by millions as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Great White Hope”&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><em><strong>Let us know what you think of this article&period; 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