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Buchanan's solution is Fortress America: pull the U.S. out of NAFTA and GATT, impose a 20% tariff on Chinese goods, 10% on imports from Japan and some kind of levy on goods from Mexico. Combine that with his hard line on immigration, his culture war, his unyielding opposition to abortion and the sweet-and-sour delivery he perfected on Crossfire. Papa's got a brand-new populism...
...turned from Washington to Wall Street, will the disenchanted blue-collar voters drift back to the Democrats, who support free trade but will promise to do a better job of protecting them from its sharp edges? And there's a natural home for them in Ross Perot's anti-NAFTA Reform Party, if it decides to run its own candidate for President...
...Buchanan who gets a prime-time address at their convention and uses it, as he did in 1992, to breathe fire--this time toward Corporate America. Or worse, a Buchanan who tries to extract at least some platform concessions on free trade, like a promise to roll back NAFTA and GATT. Too much of that kind of thing, and the corporate PACs will go running for the Democrats...
...Buchanan] was against NAFTA and believes that our borders should be protected--if need be by the military," said retired Master Sergeant Lionel L. Leblanc, a 30-year veteran of the US Air Force...
Isabel Balfrey, an 85-year-old Andover, Mass., resident, said NAFTA is bad for the United States...