Clichés are sometimes unavoidable (hindsight is 20/20), but then so is history—it provides clarity when obfuscation is the order of the day. It seems fitting to say that in some respects we have been here before. Earlier, it was with one who some say was a pioneer and in some respects a forerunner to 45—Patrick Joseph Buchanan. The author, adviser to Nixon, Ford, and Reagan…
