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Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?

By Patrick J. Buchanan “As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.” Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced. Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future […]

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Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II?

By Patrick J. Buchanan In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland’s Eastern shore. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that 35 U.S.

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Israel First or America First

By Patrick J. Buchanan Donald Trump has a new best friend. “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he berated John Kerry in a fashion that would once have resulted in a rupture of diplomatic relations. Netanyahu accused Kerry of “colluding” in and “orchestrating” […]

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Barack Backhands Bibi

By Patrick J. Buchanan Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem. By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama “failed to protect Israel in this […]

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Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age

WebNote: Pat Buchanan wrote this column back on December 25, 2012. I posted today as we observe this happy Christmas Yuletide of 2016 — And give thanks that we have finally elected a president who proudly and fearlessly proclaims Merry Christmas to all! By Patrick J.

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Europe’s Future — Merkel or Le Pen?

By Patrick J. Buchanan The terrorist who hijacked a truck in Berlin and ran over and killed 12 people, maiming and wounding 48 more, in that massacre in the Christmas market, has done more damage than he could imagine. If the perpetrator is the jihadist from Tunisia who had no right to be in Germany, […]

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The Real Saboteurs of a Trump Foreign Policy

By Patrick J. Buchanan The never-Trumpers are never going to surrender the myth that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee to defeat Clinton and elect Donald Trump. Their investment in the myth is just too huge. For Clinton and her campaign, it […]

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Lessons of Aleppo — for Trump

By Patrick J Buchanan In this world, it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, said Henry Kissinger in 1968, but to be a friend is fatal. The South Vietnamese would come to appreciate the insight. So it is today with Aleppo, where savage reprisals against U.S.

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Will Trump Defy McCain & Marco?

By Patrick J. Buchanan When word leaked that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, a holder of the Order of Friendship award in Putin’s Russia, was Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, John McCain had this thoughtful response: “Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully, and a murderer and anybody else who describes him as anything […]

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Pat Buchanan Celebrates Donald Trump’s Win, Has the Last Laugh

By Eleanor Clift at The Daily Beast “I was all for Trump. Do I feel my ideas appear to have prevailed? My enemies seem to think so!” Before Donald J.

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