After Buchanan’s famous address journalist Molly Ivins made the cutting remark that it sounded better in the original German; it was a brilliant put-down making a rather unfair point in a memorable and clever way – if you’re a conservative in the Buchanan mould you’re basically a Nazi. And, generally speaking, people don’t want to be compared to Nazis, who even the most ardent Right-winger will admit rather overstepped some moral boundaries.
