One-time Nixon aide, Republican presidential hopeful, and longtime political commentator Pat Buchanan says the Republican Party's elites are looking to purge Donald Trump from the party.

Buchanan cites columns by what he calls the "Washington Post Conservative Club," or George Will and Michael Gerson, to call on Trump to promise he will not run as a third party candidate.

While Will says the party should freeze Trump out of debates until he pledges to support whoever is the eventual candidate, Gerson goes further and attacks Trumps supporters, a move Buchanan describes in his latest column as a bad idea:

Trump’s followers are “xenophobic,” Gerson tells CNN. They have a “resentment of outsiders, of Mexico, of China, and immigrants. That’s more like a European right-wing party, a UKIP or a National Front in France. Republicans can’t incorporate that.”

But if the GOP has no room for Trump’s followers, it has no future. For there simply aren’t that many chamber-of-commerce and country-club Republicans.

UKIP is a party opposed to mass immigration in the United Kingdom and to Britain surrendering sovereignty to European Union bureaucrats in Brussels, Belgium.

Buchanan compares the British and French political movements Gerson dislikes to early American patriots:

Gerson mentions with disgust the U.K. Independence Party and France’s National Front. What do those parties have in common?

Both are anti-New World Order. Both arose to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of their nations from the nameless, faceless bureaucrats of Brussels, those EU hacks who now dictate the kinds of laws and societies the Brits and French are permitted to have.

What motivates these folks is not all that different from what brought the farmers to Lexington Green and Concord Bridge and inspired colonists to stand by the original Tea Party boys in Boston.

Buchanan spends the rest of the column pointing out the problems left behind by his own brand of conservatism and that of his former boss, President George W. Bush.