Saturday 4th May 2024

    TradeBriefs Editorial

    From the Editor's Desk

    The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement

    Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Donald Trump is reaping the benefits.In May 1995, Pat Buchanan appeared at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce an immigration policy that would become the centerpiece of his presidential campaign. "We have an illegal invasion of this country," Buchanan warned. To resist it, he called for a "Buchanan Fence" patrolled by the military along the southern border, a five-year moratorium on legal immigration, and a constitutional amendment that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents.


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