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The GOP Is Pat Buchanan’s Party Now
J.D. Vance’s RNC speech signified a return to the blood-and-soil politics at the core of Buchanan’s failed presidential runs in the 1990s. Ad Policy Republican Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan campaigns in Lafayette, La. in 1995. (Eric Draper / …