he made amends, babe buchanan, pat s sister and former campaign manager, said of trump. long before he got into the presidential race he reached out to pat and apologized for what he d done, realizing it had been wrong. and then in the america forever altered by war and economic catastrophe, donald trump set out to run in 2015 for president, for real. this time on pat buchanan s platform. and here we are in 2018, in donald trump s america which was made in some ways by pat buchanan s campaign in the 90s. if you would like to know more about how we got here, here s the shameless plug part of it. read my new book, the red and the blue, the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism. it s available for preorder now.
new nationalism focusing on the forgotten americans. he wanted a wall across the entire southern border and he was denounced as a bigot by donald trump. pat buchanan was his name. they called him pitchfork pat and if you really want to understand the moment we re living in, go back to its roots. back to the 1990s. back when everything seemed to be humming in america. there was low unemployment, the stock market was surging, peace and prosperity for everyone to enjoy but that was the surface. beneath the surface there was sweeping transformation, economic, technological, demographic and with all of that there were rising tensions and then from the right a cable television pundit who saw a chance to take advantage of it with a new kind of populism. pat buchanan went from cnn to the presidential campaign trail in 1992 challenging george h.w. bush.
women that puts them in the position of actually elevating them in a good way. we might see a moderating effect in that sense but the other things democrats need to do is provide as much cover as possible for the democrats who are actually who you pointed out, who are fighting for their seats and they need to give cover to these folks and put the pressure on the republican side and that s something that protests can do. that s something that democrats need to get better around because republicans have been motivated around this issue for a long time. the new york times has this story today, we can put a clip up on the screen about the long-term campaign from this administration from republicans to jar this seat loose. they said subtle and no so subtle way the white house waged
economic, technological, demographic and with all of that there were rising tensions and then from the right a cable television pundit who saw a chance to take advantage of it with a new kind of populism. pat buchanan went from cnn to the presidential campaign trail in 1992 challenging george h.w. bush. he won the golf war in 1991 but buchanan said it was a waste bush wanted nafta, but buchanan said that was a sellout of workers, a sellout of america s sovereignty, america first was his slogan. a few years before ronald reagan had granted amnesty to those who came to the united states illegally but then buchanan said enough was enough. if you wanted to stop illegal immigration, he said, you needed a great big wall along the mexican border america s demographics were changing and
the iraq war, gave us afghanistan, it ended with the financial crisis, economic meltdown. and it was some time around then in post-bush america that donald trump did something very untrump like. according to reporting from tim alberta in politico, trump picked up the phone, called pat buchanan and apologized for all the hurtful things he said. he made amends bay buchanan pat s sister and former campaign manager said of trump. long before he got into the presidential race he reached out to pat and apologized for what he d done, realizing it had been wrong. and then in the america forever altered by war and economic catastrophe, donald trump set out to run for 2015 in president for real, this time on pat buchanan s platform. and here we are in 2018, in donald trump s america which was made in some ways by pat buchanan s campaign in the 90s. if you would like to know more about how we got here, here s the shameless plug part of it.