"The Wallace Vote Is Consolidating in Republican Ranks"

"We also know that the Wallace movement was not a one-off, or even a two- or three-off. It erupted in Patrick Buchanan's insurgent 1992 and 1996 Republican presidential bids. In 1992, recall, Buchanan previewed Trump's hostility to immigration and free trade, stole the Republican spotlight with a searing convention speech that declared a 'cultural war,' and contributed to the defeat of an incumbent Republican president. In 1996, shortly before winning the New Hampshire primary, Buchanan chortled over the chaos he was causing. 'This is too much fun, this is too much fun—we've got them all on the run,' he told a boisterous rally. 'The establishment in Washington is shaking in its boots at what's going on here,' he said. 'All the peasants are coming with pitchforks.' The Wallace vote erupted again in 2008, when Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, mocked intellectuals and elites in contemptuous tones that could have come straight from Wallace's own mouth."

Jonathan Rauch at The Atlantic connects George Wallace to Donald Trump.