Pat Buchanan — pundit, assistant to three presidents, best-selling author, and three-time presidential candidate — deserves the Medal of Freedom, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R.-Mo., declared last week.
In a letter to President Donald Trump, Schmitt called on him to award the famed conservative trailblazer the Medal of Freedom, saying, “[Buchanan] was a prophetic voice on the defining issues of our time: Immigration, trade, foreign policy, and the ‘cultural war’ that the Left was waging in America. While these issues were ignored or dismissed for decades by Washington, they were all too real for Americans in towns like the one I grew up in.”
Historians and political reporters have increasingly pointed out that Buchanan, in his two bids for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996 and as the Reform Party nominee in 2000, essentially paved the way for Trump’s eventual election in 2016.
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