Throw your weight behind GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump now — or prepare to lose next year’s election to Hillary Clinton. Buchanan, an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, told Newsmax TV the freak-out over Trump’s proposal to temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the U.S. is misguided and will make the billionaire developer turn independent as his supporters flee the GOP.
And it will open the door to Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential frontrunner, to waltz into the Oval Office in the 2016 general election.
“Somebody’s got to tell the Republican Party, look, everybody’s advising you how you get rid of Trump, but you destroy him, you destroy his issues or you deny his issues and arguments, where do you think those people are going to go? They’re going to stay home,” Buchanan said on “Newsmax Prime” with J.D. Hayworth.
“The whole message in this campaign, frankly, and it’s also
to a degree in the Democratic Party, is that the American establishment since
1991, the end of the Cold War, has utterly failed America.
“And
resulted in one after another defeat in foreign policy and in trade policy and
in the ability to control our borders.”
Trump’s
call for a ban until the government shores up its vetting process to keep
Middle Eastern terrorists from entering — as did a Pakistani woman who with her
husband killed 14 in California last week — has been condemned by his
presidential competitors and Republican National Committee chair Reince
Priebus.
Buchanan said the American establishment has become “unhinged”
by their reaction to Trump’s idea.
“The
establishment is unhinged. It is unhinged and the incredible overreaction –
using terms like fascist and Nazi and Hitler and Mussolini to Trump’s
suggestion about a temporary moratorium on immigration from the Middle East
until we find out how we can vet folks a lot better than we’re doing right
now,” Buchanan said.
“Trump is a
great threat to that establishment and they can sense it and you see it in the
hysterical reaction, hysterical, to what Trump said.”
Buchanan —
author of ”The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to
Create the New Majority,” published by Crown Forum — added:
“This whole
San Bernardino thing is really underscoring a point that basically was made by
Donald Trump….
“He said,
look, if we can’t vet these folks coming in from the Islamic world, where all
these wars are going on, Sunni versus Shia, al-Qaida, and ISIS, maybe we ought
to have a moratorium, a temporary time out on mass immigration into the U.S.
until we correct our system, or reduce the numbers coming in.”
Buchanan
said he made the same arguments for limits on entry into the U.S. when he ran
for president in 1996 and 2000.
“I agree with that for many, many reasons. First, the United
States basically does not have a need for millions more people. We do have a
need for tighter and better security of those who are coming in,” he told
Hayworth.
“What
tremendous advantage is there to the United States by hurrying to bring one or
two or three million more folks in, especially from a part of the world where
Islamists are fighting one another?”
Buchanan
said that without solidarity the GOP is doomed to lose.
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