1. Francis urged Buchanan to run an unorthodox campaign, of the sort Trump ended up running, and was ignored.
2 The moment would end up coming in 2016, 11 years after Francis' death.
3. Francis wrote a wickedly brilliant 1996 essay on Buchanan, "From Household to Nation" "The 'culture war for Buchanan is not Republican swaggering about family values and dirty movies but a battle over whether
the nation itself can continue to exist under the onslaught of the militant secularism, acquisitive egois
economic and political globalism, demographic inundation, and unchecked state centralism supported by the ruling class
4."If Buchanan loses the nomination, it will be because his time has not yet come." Francis wrote.