Pat Buchanan announced last month that he has retired from journalism. Buchanan, who has been a part of American political life since he started working for former President Richard Nixon in 1966, has spent decades advocating certain conservative positions that have now become central to the…
on immigration, as well as for pro-life policies and against American involvement in foreign wars. Buchanan also savaged political correctness.
Buchanan was raised in the same environment I was — what some of us jokingly refer to as “the Catholic ghetto” of Washington, D.C. In fact, Buchanan went to the same Catholic schools as my father, Blessed Sacrament Parochial School and the famed Gonzaga Jesuit High School just blocks from the Capitol. These were places that had a deep impact on both men. Still, the differences between the two men reveal the blind spots in Buchanan’s populism.
Many working-class guys I worked with mostly agree with how Buchanan famously diagnosed the culture war in a 1992 convention speech: “The agenda that Clinton & Clinton would impose on America: abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units. That’s change, all right. But that’s not the kind of change America needs. It’s not the kind of change America wants.
While exonerating Buchanan of general antisemitism, Buckley did take issue with Buchanan’s words during the Gulf War, finishing with this conclusion:"I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it: most probably, an iconoclastic temperament.”
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