re: #70 bratwurst

It’s a fact that nobody has cast a single vote for Trump to date. However, should he win an important contest he will have already exceeded the two Pats and be in a league of his own in terms of being a legitimate source of worry.

Edit: I should correct myself, Buchanan actually DID manage to win a few states in 1996.

What is really worth mentioning is that Trump is modeling a great deal of his campaign after that of Buchanan.

New York Magazine had an article about the similarities a few days ago - here’s the writeup:

Trump Is the Republicans’ Nightmare and They Won’t Wake Up From It

When Donald Trump initially rocketed to the top of national Republican polls, it was fashionable to compare him to Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich — a flamboyant media personality, briefly capturing the spotlight, but doomed to immolate. But Trump is not running a race like those other candidates, nor is he mimicking their results. Instead, he is following the pattern more like a candidate from an earlier cycle: Pat Buchanan.

They hammer the point home with this on-point comparison with Buchanan’s 1996 run for the White House:

It was during his second run that Buchanan fully developed the ideological persona he has maintained since: a populist, paleoconservative. Buchanan was anti-immigration, anti-free trade, isolationist on foreign policy, and a defender of cultural traditionalism.

Sound familiar?