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1) Patrick Buchanan: small decentralized government (Federal govt's primary concern is defense); protectionist in matters of trade (free trade, with limited protectionary tariffs to protect the American worker); humble foreign policy (walk softly with a big stick); limited immigration (allows for natural wage progression).
2) George W. Bush: huge centralized government; unbridled capitalism/trade agreements (which have gutted our industrial sector); imperialist foreign policy (everyone is a potential enemy); doors-wide-open immigration (ensures that wages are decline, while the rich get richer).
Pat Buchanan and George W. Bush.
Both are labeled by intellectuals as being on the "hard Right," yet both are very different.
"A Conservative is someone who wishes to conserve the Republic as defined by the Constitution of the US. Now if you want to talk about conservatives with a small 'c', that's another story. Jefferson was less a 'liberal' and more a revolutionary. Again, by definition."
"Thomas Jefferson was a ideologically a republican, in today's terms he was a conservative for conserving the Constitutional Republic."
1) Patrick Buchanan: small decentralized government (Federal govt's primary concern is defense); protectionist in matters of trade (free trade, with limited protectionary tariffs to protect the American worker); humble foreign policy (walk softly with a big stick); limited immigration (allows for natural wage progression).
2) George W. Bush: huge centralized government; unbridled capitalism/trade agreements (which have gutted our industrial sector); imperialist foreign policy (everyone is a potential enemy); doors-wide-open immigration (ensures that wages are decline, while the rich get richer).
Pat Buchanan and George W. Bush.
Both are labeled by intellectuals as being on the "hard Right," yet both are very different.
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3) Bill Clinton(1995-2000 version): Moderate centralized government with mild support for conservative ideas like welfare reform; unbridled capitalism and NAFTA trade agreements. Wide open support for immigration. Moderate support for socially conservative issues like the Defense of Marriage Act.
Neither. Buchanan is closer to me than Bush is. I have issues with his past allegations of racism, and his "small, decentralized federal government" idea.
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What's Your Definition Of True Conservatism? Bush Or Buchanan?
