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How Pat Buchanan, Secret Nazi, Paved The Way For Donald Trump

Behind the Bastards

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What's the Silent Majority?

As a native in the Nixon White House, Pat Buchanan was a constant voice against racial integration. In Right From The Beginning, he wrote editorials slamming the Civil Rights Movement based on documents provided by the FBI. He also argues that the segregated Washington he grew up in, where blacks were disenfranchised, was a better and more humane city than what it later became. It's a good phrase who wouldn't want to be part of a silent majority? Two things I love, the silence and majorities. Put them together. You got a movement. That's very quiet.

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