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Buchanan: GOP 'Under A Demographic Death Sentence'
 "Middle-class white folks" and "working class whites" are "culturally under assault," said Pat Buchanan on Saturday, speaking with left-wing CNN’s Michael Smerconish on the anchor's eponymous show.'Cultural assault?' Well yes, but only for the past 50 years or so. Speaking about an article he published last Thursday, Buchanan headline "The Great White Hope" described Donald Trump as appealing to the aforementioned whites as he said President Barack Obama appeals to blacks. "Are the good times really over?" was being answered in the affirmative by disillusioned white voters, aid Buchanan. Pointing to Trump’s record-breaking volume of total votes in the Republican presidential nomination process, Buchanan said the majority of the increase was driven by the whites he identified. "Nationalism and populism," aid Buchanan, were primary drivers of Trump’s base of white supporters. "Are you helping or hurting [Trump] when you cast his campaign in those terms?" asked Smerconish about the racial element of Buchanan’s analysis, a question not asked of Democrat appeals to racial, ethnic, gender, and other identity politics. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-31 |
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