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Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart by Patrick J. Buchanan
Although he denies it, and now styles himself as a non-interventionist, Pat Buchanan is still an unreconstructed and unrepentant isolationist. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, his political views are often quirky and pungent, sometimes maddingly simplistic but sometimes incisive and thought provoking.
Day Of Reckoning is Pat Buchanan's latest screed on what's wrong with America and how it's "coming apart at the seams," which is his way of saying going to hell in a handbasket. The list of things that Buchanan thinks are threatening to tear America apart and consign it to the dustbin of history include illegal immigration, failure to seal its borders, free trade, a staggering debt load, a huge trade deficit, the rise of China, job outsourcing, corporate greed, loss of manufacturing jobs, unwise foreign alliances, an "empire" which provokes terrorism, the decline of traditional moral values, and unelected judges who legislate from the bench.
Buchanan longs for the go...more
Day Of Reckoning is Pat Buchanan's latest screed on what's wrong with America and how it's "coming apart at the seams," which is his way of saying going to hell in a handbasket. The list of things that Buchanan thinks are threatening to tear America apart and consign it to the dustbin of history include illegal immigration, failure to seal its borders, free trade, a staggering debt load, a huge trade deficit, the rise of China, job outsourcing, corporate greed, loss of manufacturing jobs, unwise foreign alliances, an "empire" which provokes terrorism, the decline of traditional moral values, and unelected judges who legislate from the bench.
Buchanan longs for the go...more
