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To know the real Trump, the key historical
period is 1992-2000, back when Pat Buchanan, “attacking from the right,” took
on the Republican Establishment. Why? Because Trump is using Buchanan’s
playbook. As Buchanan himself told Politico
during the presidential campaign last year, “ ‘When I read [my 1992] speech
recently, I was astonished’ at the parallels [with Trump today]. ‘There’s
just an awful lot there.’ ”[1] I doubt Buchanan is “astonished.” But
yes, Trump used all his stuff, including nods to white supremacism and fiery,
anti-Mexican rhetoric. Even the anti-Mexican wall is in there, though in
Buchanan’s 1992 proposal it was a ‘fence.’[2] Says Buchanan: “ ‘I was elated, delighted that Trump
picked up on the exact issues on which I challenged Bush… And then he goes
and uses my slogan? It just doesn’t get any better than this.’ ”[3] Pat is so modest. It does get better (a lot better…).
Back in 2000, when Pat Buchanan
decided he would stop competing in the Republican Party and try for the
Reform Party presidential nomination instead, a well-known business and media
personality pretended to challenge him for the prize and launched a media blitzkrieg to discredit Buchanan. His name was Donald Trump. You read correctly. “No one,” says Politico, “has hit [Buchanan] harder
than Trump.” And Trump’s
uppercut—get this—was to call Buchanan a racist. “Trump devoted portions of a book to
highlighting Buchanan’s alleged ‘intolerance’ toward black and gay people,
accused him of being ‘in love with Adolf Hitler’ and denounced Buchanan while
visiting a Holocaust museum, telling reporters, ‘We must recognize bigotry
and prejudice and defeat it wherever it appears.’ ”[4] Politico
left something out. In his 2000
campaign book, The America We Deserve,
Trump wrote: “ ‘Pat Buchanan has been guilty of
many egregious examples of intolerance. He has systematically bashed Blacks, Mexicans,
and Gays.’ ” (my emphasis) And, “Trump went further in an interview
with The Advocate, calling Pat’s
writings on Mexicans
and other minorities ‘disgusting.’ ”[5]
(my emphasis) Donald Trump: Mr. Tolerance! Enemy of
border walls! Mexican lover! What
gives? Enter
Roger Stone.
This character cut his teeth with
Richard Nixon, “who created the… DEA in 1973 to declare ‘an all-out global
war on the drug menace.’ ”[6] Stone is so fond of Nixon that he
owns a creepy shrine full of Nixon memorabilia and has tattooed the man’s
likeness on his back (yes, really). Perhaps not coincidentally, Stone is
considered the grand wizard of ‘dirty tricks’ politics (he loves that). And
he is widely credited with the success of Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign.
He’s always been in Trump’s corner.
Back in the 2000 presidential race, it was Roger Stone who got Buchanan to
drop out of the Republican race and seek the Reform Party nomination. And it
was also Stone who then got Trump to simulate a contest to attack Buchanan as
a racist. What for? In the recent Netflix documentary, Get Me Roger Stone, the protagonist
explains on camera: “I had an interest in the Reform Party imploding, at that
point.” The point was to tar the Reform Party as a racist circus and destroy
it. It worked.
It is alleged that Roger Stone was
helping the Republicans beat the Democrats. Too many people had switched from
the Republican to the fledgling Reform Party in 1992, throwing the election
to the Democrat, Bill Clinton. And so, in 2000, to protect Bush Jr. from suffering his father’s fate, Stone and Trump destroyed
the Reform Party. I don’t buy it. Those in power care not a whit whether
the Democratic or Republican candidate wins—they own both. The US is run by a
two-party political cartel centered in the CFR (Part 4) and other powerful
think tanks. That’s the HIR model. But those in power do care whether a third force outside
of the two-party Establishment can become viable, for this might bring real
democracy to the United States. With Trump’s help, Stone buried the whole
third-party idea. That, I believe,
was the point of the maneuver. They weren’t honest anti-racists then;
they aren’t honest racists now. They are con men. (Buchanan, another Nixon
stalwart, most likely colluded with Stone and Trump from the start.[7]) You’ve
been conned. And now, you’ve been conned again. If not, then why did Trump strut
before all the world as the number one, most tremendous (most tremendous!)
anti-Establishment peacock, promising to “drain the [Washington] swamp” of
Obama’s pro-jihadi bias, only to hire a team that reeks of Obama’s pro-jihadi
and CFR Establishment types (Part 5)? It’s the same ol’ swamp.
The world is illusion, Buddha taught. The mind awakens—as if coming to its
senses whilst remaining in the dream—when it understands that. Thus, in The Matrix, a world made up of
everybody’s dreams, it is a young child, shaved and dressed as a Buddhist
monk, and bending a spoon left and right without touching it, who teaches an
amazed Neo the lesson that brings mastery over the simulated world: There is no spoon. Remember this: There is no Trump. That’s the secret of our simulated
political world. Once you accept that Trump is a character written to match
the current scene, you can resist the emotional manipulations intended by
Trump’s handlers, and reason about
their intentions, setting your mind free. We will do some reasoning next, in
Part 9, where I explain how Trump’s anti-Mexico con works.
[1] “Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing”; Politico; September/October 2016; By
Jeff Greenfield [2]
“When Pat Buchanan first
proposed building a fence on the Mexican border, the Republican establishment
was shocked, shocked! The candidate’s sister and campaign manager, Bay
Buchanan, pushed for language in the 1992 GOP platform calling for
‘structures’ on the border. Surely you don’t mean a fence, she was told.
‘We’re not talking about lighthouses,’ she replied.” SOURCE:
“Pat Buchanan: Donald Trump Stole My Playbook”;
The Daily Beast; 6 January 2016; by
Eleanor Clift [3]
“ ‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’ ”; Politico; May/June 2017; By Tim
Alberta [4]
“ ‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’ ”; Politico; May/June 2017; By Tim
Alberta [5] “That time Donald Trump put a Republican on blast for
dissing Mexicans”; Fusion;
16 September 2015; by David Matthews. [6] “Mexico's war on drugs: what has it achieved and how is the
US involved?”; The Guardian;
8 December 2016; by Nina Lakhani and
Erubiel Tirado in Mexico City. [7]
Though Buchanan pretends to be
outside the Establishment, it isn’t true. Like Stone, he cut his teeth with
Richard Nixon, whose speeches he wrote (he was “ ‘like a father to me,’ ”
says Buchanan). Ronald Reagan was fond of those speeches, apparently, because
he asked Buchanan to be his communications director, after which Buchanan
became a tremendous force in the mainstream media. SOURCE: “ ‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’ ”; Politico; May/June 2017; By Tim Alberta |
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