despite the smug, patrician Yalie overlay, but it would be delicious guilty fun to read what he'd have to say, in his inimitably pompous and pretentious style, about Il Douche.

author of fun, if somewhat right-leaning, satirical novels like "Thank You for Smoking". Maybe he'll chime in.

.. where those assholes are concerned. The fucking "conservatives" have carefully encouraged the idiots for years. Whipped them up with anti-government (anti-Democratic government) rhetoric... whipped the low-information folks up with "socially conservative" goals that the conservatives never even tried to accomplish.

The conservatives pumped that "trickle down" bullshit into those people and generally drove their political IQ down to floor level. The conservatives fucked over the middle class, the vets..... and told them it was the Black Guy.

The conservatives got this country into loser wars that cost us blood and treasure....and our grandchildren are left with the bill. And they blamed it on the Black Guy.

The conservatives fertilized them and watched them grow, and now they are reaping the harvest.

Put more simply: Fuck 'em!

they have been building for 45 years. These cynical, hypocritical goons will not now be heard to complain because he finally got loose and is tearing down the castle on top of them.

May they all go into the sulfur pit.

How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996

(S)ooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States, manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our people, and disregard or diminish our national interests and national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist form when it arrives. The sooner it comes, the better…

(Samuel Francis in Chronicles)

Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?

What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs? What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better health care at a reasonable price? What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society — something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America — you simply promised to restore the Middle American core — the economic and cultural losers of globalization — to their rightful place in America? What if you said you would restore them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?

That's pretty much the advice that columnist Samuel Francis gave to Pat Buchanan in a 1996 essay, "From Household to Nation," in Chronicles magazine. Samuel Francis was a paleo-conservative intellectual who died in 2005. Earlier in his career he helped Senator East of North Carolina oppose the Martin Luther King holiday. He wrote a white paper recommending the Reagan White House use its law enforcement powers to break up and harass left-wing groups. He was an intellectual disciple of James Burnham's political realism, and Francis' political analysis always had a residue of Burnham's Marxist sociology about it. He argued that the political right needed to stop playing defense — the globalist left won the political and cultural war a long time ago — and should instead adopt the insurgent strategy of communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci. Francis eventually turned into a something resembling an all-out white nationalist, penning his most racist material under a pen name. Buchanan didn't take Francis' advice in 1996, not entirely. But 20 years later, "From Household to Nation," reads like a political manifesto from which the Trump campaign springs.

To simplify Francis' theory: There are a number of Americans who are losers from a process of economic globalization that enriches a transnational global elite. These Middle Americans see jobs disappearing to Asia and increased competition from immigrants. Most of them feel threatened by cultural liberalism, at least the type that sees Middle Americans as loathsome white bigots. But they are also threatened by conservatives who would take away their Medicare, hand their Social Security earnings to fund-managers in Connecticut, and cut off their unemployment too.

http://theweek.com/articles/599577/how-obscure-adviser-pat-buchanan-predicted-wild-trump-campaign-1996

And only if it were in cartoon form.

I don't even know.

Who is the candidate of choice at National Review?

. . .the first observation is that they are deluded into believing that their principles are not still EXACTLY what Trump is espousing.

They are washing their hands of the style, not the content.

Not one thing i've read from these "pundits" so far shows an retreat from the positions that morphed into Trump and Cruz and the tea sillies.

They're concern is that the exact same philosophy will be discredited by the crazy styles of Trump and Cruz. Their biggest concern is that Trump is pulling back the curtain on what they all say to each other, but don't say in public.

will wear that magazine like a badge of honor.