Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 71

Before Bannon, There Was Buchanan

By Eleanor Clift – The Daily Beast The old keeper of the GOP’s American First flame considers the man carrying that torch today. A conservative firebrand, Pat Buchanan worked in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses, filling a role much like the one that Steve Bannon is in today. They’re the true believers, the keepers […]

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Patrick Buchanan Reveals Himself to Be the First Trumpist

By Joe Klein – The New York Times Patrick J. Buchanan is a merry troglodyte, a naughty provocateur. He still calls homosexuality “sodomy,” just to get the goat of a community he will only reluctantly call “gay.” He writes that he wanted to be named ambassador to South Africa by President Ford so he could […]

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Nixon and Trump, Then and Now

By Patrick J. Buchanan For two years, this writer has been consumed by two subjects. First, the presidency of Richard Nixon, in whose White House I served from its first day to its last, covered in my new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.

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How Berkeley Birthed the Right

By Patrick J. Buchanan In December 1964, a Silver Age of American liberalism, to rival the Golden Age of FDR and the New Deal, seemed to be upon us. Barry Goldwater had been crushed in a 44-state landslide and the GOP reduced to half the size of the Democratic Party, with but 140 seats in […]

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Pat Buchanan’s White House Battles

By James Rosen at The National Interest… “I DID not understand then, nor do I now, why we did what we did,” writes Patrick J. Buchanan towards the end of Nixon’s White House Wars, the second of two volumes chronicling the decade he spent with the thirty-seventh president as a speechwriter, political adviser and confidant. […]

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Nixon’s Revenge: The Fall of the Adversary Press

By Patrick J. Buchanan Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association dinner exposed anew how far from Middle America our elite media reside. At the dinner, the electricity was gone, the glamor and glitz were gone. Neither the president nor his White House staff came.

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The Rise of the Generals

By Patrick J. Buchanan Has President Donald Trump outsourced foreign policy to the generals? So it would seem. Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin.

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Politico Interviews Pat Buchanan

By Tim Alberta – Politico His first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson. He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Is Macron the EU’s Last Best Hope?

By Patrick J. Buchanan For the French establishment, Sunday’s presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a “damn near-run thing.” Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation […]

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Is Democracy in a Death Spiral?

By Patrick J. Buchanan “You all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don’t think it’s worth a damn. Churchill is right.

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