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THE HISTORY
The term "America First" was coined in 1940 by a committee of prominent American citizens and members of congress that before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor opposed American involvement in World War II. Following the attack on December 7th, 1941 the committee disbanded and gave it's full support to defeating the Nazis and Imperial Japan & its most famous former member Charles Lindberg even flew over 50 combat missions during the war.
In 1992 Pat Buchannan decided to challenge the incumbent GOP President in his reelection bid, at the time he sought to unseat then President George H.W Bush who had abandoned the American People and sided with the globalist elites. With no space or difference between President Bush and his challenger, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Buchannan decided to speak up and challenge President Bush for the nomination running on a "Make America First Again" slogan, sound familiar?
Though Buchannan failed in his bid to win the nomination, he awoke a major movement in the United States and tapped into the American Spirit that for so long had laid dormant. In his platform Buchanan advocated for things like:
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Phasing out Foreign Aid, and focusing on helping Americans First.
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Re-negotiating trade to fair terms.
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Stop paying for the defense of other nations.
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Cutting regulations and Taxes
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Install Term Limits on Congress
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Freeze Federal Spending
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Re-Build the Military
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Work to clean up our environment
Looking at the above list, one could say that the America First's movement real pioneer was not Donald Trump and the MAGA Train, it was Pat Buchanan!
Though Buchanan saw a tidal wave of support that shook the establishment for the first time, the power of the incumbency simply proved to be too strong and Buchanan and even Ross Perot after him were unsuccessful in bringing the America First platform into power in D.C. After the 1992 elections there were small but meaningful shifts that showed the America First movement was still plausible and very much alive, like the 1994 midterms and Newt Gingrich with his contract with America, but the America First movement would lack a true champion until 2016.
The announcement by Donald Trump that he was running for President of the United States was met by both parties with un-restrained laughter and insulting diatribes targeted at what on the surface seemed to be Trump, but was really aimed directly at the heart of the American Spirit.
No one in the media, ruling classes in D.C. or the professional political class gave Donald Trump a shot. The news cycles were filled with the same mocking and joke filled segments that seemed more interested in using Mr. Trump as the butt of a joke than a serious candidate, it seemed, at the time, the only person who believed he could and would win was Trump himself.
Donald Trump seemed to not be phased at all by the slings and arrows he received from the media, he seemed to always take the mocking and at most times down right disrespect with a level of calm, because he knew something in his heart that the media would never understand, he didn't need or want their approval, all he wanted was to save America.
The 2016 election was billed as a coronation more than a free will choice of the people. The odds on favorite in all the media and political elite was Hillary Clinton and her globalist cabal that she used to centralize power would be handed a new 4 years and a third Obama term would finish the United States as the final take over by the globalist. The leviathan in D.C. felt they had all but sown up another victory and the kabuki theater of the land of the free would continue for 4 more years.
But the American People Had something to say about that. As the returns came in on election night it became overwhelmingly clear, the American Spirit was fighting back and America First was the battle cry of freedom once again.
