++Dylan Matthews at Vox wrote a piece with the above mentioned title. It seems peculiar when you think the conservatives shutter at Trump's past support of abortion,his acknowledgment of social security and medicare, his off and on-again support of Planned Parenthood. For conservatives, it is Trump's Democratic past that disturbs them.
++But Matthews says that Trump's present identity is more rooted in the pale-conservatives known to us in the form of Pat Buchanan. Buchanan,if you remember,built his "movement" on nationalism, free markets,and moral traditionalism. But it was heaviest on nationalism.
++Matthews writes that pale-conservatives are very anti-immigrant and evince a high skepticism of economic globalization. You will remember Pat's war against "The New Global Order".
++Matthews traces this back to Robert Taft and his contest against IKE. Roger Stone, a Trump operative,sometimes seems fixated on this contest. Matthews says that this type of conservatism dominated the Republican Party for years going back to McKinley and his tariffs.
++Matthews notices the irony of pale-conservatives primarily being right-wing Catholics. He notes that the rhetoric of Trump reflects the views of Taki, the millionaire socialist, who has a magazine with his name TAKI. Taki supports the Golden Dawn party in Greece and his editor is the white supremacist Richard Spencer. Matthews attributes Trump's words on immigration to the circle around Taki.
++Matthews also warns that the paleo-conservatives had a rough time of it with the National Review. Joseph Sobran, a Catholic right-winger and their columnist, began writing pieces that were anti-semitic and showed evidence of Holocaust denial. After he was fired, John Derbyshire took up the mantle and he too turned out to be anti-semitic.
++So Trump's idiosyncratic views which have alienated the neo-conservatives derive from the cesspool of the remaining paleo-conservatives and white supremacist magazines like American Renaissance.
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