What is Sam T. Francis?
{{Article issues| {{No sources|date=April 2024}} {{NPOV|date=March 2020}} }} {{Infobox person | image = | imagesize = | caption = | occupation = {{hlist|Columnist|writer}} | yearsactive = | birth_name = Samuel Todd Francis | birth_date = {{birth date|1947|4|29}} | birth_place = [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|2|15|1947|4|29}} | death_place = [[Cheverly, Maryland]], U.S. | death_cause = [[Aortic aneurysm]] | resting_place = Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. | alma_mater = [[Johns Hopkins University]] <small>([[B.A.]] in History)</small><br>[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <small>([[Ph.D.]] in Modern History)</small> }} '''Samuel Todd Francis''' (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005), known as '''Sam Francis''', was an American columnist and writer. He was an advisor to [[Pat Buchanan]], a [[paleoconservative]] who believed that instead of trying to defend [[capitalism]] [[Republicans]] should try to get rid of [[free trade]] and to tell the [[middle class]] that the policies [[conservative]]s had always supported only helped the rich. He also supported ending [[immigration]] to the [[United Stares]]. A Professor named George Michael who spent most of his life writing about [[Americans|American]] [[racist]]s, [[neo-Nazi]]s and [[Muslim]] [[terrorism]] to find out how dangerous they were said that Francis was an extremist and an important one. A [[conservative]] writer named [[Michael Brendan Dougherty]] said that Francis through what he said to [[Pat Buchanan]] in 1996 had created the campaign of [[Donald Trump]]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Francis, Sam}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2005 deaths]] [[Category:American columnists]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:Writers from Chattanooga, Tennessee]] [[Category:Deaths from aortic aneurysm]] {{US-bio-stub}}