In the article “The Donald’s Odds Against Hillary” by Pat Buchanan, Buchanan gives his predictions for the two presidential candidates, and his opinion on how he believes that the democratic party is dying. At first he begins by saying that the united Republicans have the upper hand on the presidential election. Buchanan then goes to state that the democrats can have a decent chance of getting ahead of the Republicans due to the famous “blue wall”, where many states tend to all vote Democratic over Republican. He then also says that the colored vote goes more often to the Democratic candidate, his third point about why the democrats could win is the “self-Interest” in providing the nation with government benefits. Then he goes on to explain …show more content…
Yet now he is willing to do anything to ensure that a Republican candidate will win the presidential seat and it annoying. He has become a bandwagoner, deciding to follow the trends all the other Republicans have. Towards the end of the article he also begins to speak about Europe’s immigration problem, which has no correspondence to what he had been speaking about throughout the entire article. It seems out of place and forced as I read it, as if Buchanan was desperate to find a point that will make Trump actually seem like a decent candidate. Another thing I found incredulous was his point of how “ Clinton represents continuity. Trump represents change”. Yes sure Trump will be change, but is it the type of change that will advance America or possibly destroy it? Is it not better to have continuity that is safe over having the possibility of destroying our country. It is not worth to have a candidate like Trump, who may I say has bankrupted multiple companies, to run our country into the ground? If at this point Republicans are so desperate to have a Republican office that they will even take the arrogant, racist, money bags of a