national media. despicable, irresponsible and deliberately vicious, he could call it. this was more than just blowing off steam. what newt gingrich also saw was the vast strategic potential. slowly gingrich sold his party on making the idea of the term media synonymous not just with democrat and liberal but the idea of elitism. he got his party to embrace a style of populism that placed the media in opposition to the values of everyday americans and it worked. it was the going risch iingrich that broke the democratic stronghold. not everyone in the republican party followed his media play book but he had given them a taste of what he could achieve. lo and behold, two decades later a celebrity billionaire took that same play book, ramped it up in a whole new way and with newt gingrich cheering him on at rallies and television, donald trump road it to the white
november. buchanan was getting tired of the gop. in 1999 he accused primary leaders of rigging the primary race against him in 2000, rigging it on behalf of george w bush. buchanan decided to bolt the party. he would run for the nomination of the reform party started a few years before by ross perot. and that is when pat buchanan got competition for the reform party nomination, surprise competition from a celebrity billionaire named donald trump. trump joined the reform party in 1999. he said he was looking at running for president and a lot of it was like today. he disparaged enemies with schoolyard taunts, he talked about making oprah his runningmate, he claimed to be doing great in the polls when he wasn t. he became a one-man content machine for cable news channels. so much so similar but with one very big difference between the donald trump of 1999 and the one we know today. that pat buchanan platform, the donald trump of 1999 wanted no part of it.
they were stunned to learn that so many of their own voters didn t mind pitchfork pat s rhetoric. were they losing control of their own party? it turned out they weren t, at least not yet. i 96 dole went on to win the nomination, did go on to lose in november and buchanan was getting tired of the gop. in 1999 he accused primary leaders of rigging the primary race on behalf of george w. bush. buchanan decided to bolt the party. he would run for the nomination of the reform party started a few years before by ross perot and that is when pat buchanan got competition for the reform party nomination, surprise competition from a celebrity billionaire named donald trump. trump joined the reform party in 1999. he said he was looking at running for president and a lot of it was like today. he disparaged enemies with schoolyard taunts, he talked
didn t mind pitchfork pat s rhetor rhetoric. were they losing control of their own party? it turned out they weren t, at least not yet. in 96 dole went on to win the nomination, did go on to lose in november and buchanan was getting tired of the gop. in 1999 he accused primary leaders of rigging the primary race on behalf of george w. bush. buchanan decided to bolt the party. he would run for the nomination of the reform party started a few years before by ross perot and that is when pat buchanan got competition for the reform party nomination, surprise competition from a celebrity billionaire named donald trump. trump joined the reform party in 1999. he said he was looking at running for president and a lot of it was like today. he disparaged enemies with schoolyard taunts, he talked about making oprah his running
party. they were not the chosen candidate of their parties but yet they made the big splash. the establishment of the big parties are not where the voters of. the voters finally stood up and said this is not our issue agenda in washington. so you have somebody with a lot of money, say a michael bloomberg, or a cuban, can they find the moderate middle ground, identify with a working class voter in the same way donald trump was able to do? you just mentioned, they re both billionaires, coming in after a billionaire candidate donald trump which to date hasn t been able to show he knows how to run the government, it may be hard for that celebrity billionaire to come in following donald trump. it doesn t mean it won t happen, but it will be very hard because they ll have a trump label put around them. it feels like this moment no one s yet decided, and no one can figure out what the heck is