Buchanan: Ryan and ‘Bush Republicanism’ Is Dead

Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan deemed “Ryan Republicanism” and “Bush Republicanism” dead and said the issues raised by Donald Trump are issues that will endure long after the 2016 presidential election during a Wednesday interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Buchanan, a former senior advisor to Ronald Reagan, lamented House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision Monday to no longer defend or campaign with Trump.

“Ryan Republicanism and Bush Republicanism – whatever you say for them – they are dead. They are not the future.”

“I don’t know that Donald Trump is going to win this election, but the issues he has raised are going to endure,” Buchanan told Ingraham. “Ryan Republicanism and Bush Republicanism – whatever you say for them – they are dead. They are not the future.”

Buchan said Americans are looking for leaders committed to economic patriotism, secure borders and protecting national sovereignty, saying that these national concerns Trump has raised “have the whole Western world convulsed.” And if the Republican Party distances itself from its nominee, Buchanan warned that the Party will risk distancing itself from the people it purports to represent.

“The country is boiling with anger and resentment. It wants change desperately,” Buchanan said. “And if at the end of this they are given the same old people and the same old direction – frankly, in both parties – I think you’ve got a real problem of disconnect in the nation between the people and the regime.”

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Ingraham agreed, warning that the people who’ve passionately backed Trump all throughout the primaries and the general election will place the blame for a potential Trump loss on the divided GOP.

“If Trump doesn’t win, the anger isn’t going to be trained on Trump,” Ingraham said. “But it’s not like the people are going to turn against Trump. The people are going to turn against the Republicans who didn’t support Trump.”

Buchanan predicted that if Trump loses on Election Day “there’s going to be a forest fire, but it’s going to burn up an awful lot of dead wood.”

The people are angry, Ingraham said, as she pointed towards one of the recent WikiLeaks dumps of emails hacked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. In an email that contained an alleged portion of one of Clinton’s speeches, the Democratic nominee said that she dreams of a “hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

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“We don’t need two globalist parties. We already have one, and that’s the Democrat Party. We need a conservative party … that represents the average American worker and the American family that’s struggling,” Ingraham said. “And Trump represents that, and he’s not perfect, he has flaws, we all do, and some of them are searing because they’re on tape. But that line from Hillary confirmed everything that we believe about the Obamas and the Clintons and frankly the Bushes. And Paul Ryan is closer to Hillary, Pat, then he is to Donald Trump on these issues.”

Pleading with the GOP to demonstrate that it doesn’t “have to agree on everything to be unified for the moment,” both Ingraham and Buchanan urged its members to work towards electing Trump – if not for the White House’s sake, then for the sake of their own Party’s future.

“Get a Republican in the White House so you can put good people on the Court and stop the bleed of our independence. That is the only thing that makes sense,” Ingraham said. “Otherwise, there’s nothing less to conserve in four years. I don’t know what there will be to conserve in four or eight years.”