Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Party professionals count on Buchanan's support to peak at 30%. But what unnerves them is the possibility that his attacks on Wall Street and free trade may catch on even if his candidacy doesn't, haunting the eventual G.O.P. presidential nominee all the way to November. Buchanan has made it clear that he will support the party's nominee in November, whoever it is. But after he's done accusing Dole of "hauling water'' for Big Business, can he get his troops to do the same? It's hard to put the populist genie back in the bottle. With...
Then there's the specter of Houston II. Republicans have to worry about a Buchanan who gets a prime-time address at their convention and uses it, as he did in 1992, to breathe fire--this time toward Corporate America. Or worse, a Buchanan who tries to extract at least some platform concessions on free trade, like a promise to roll back NAFTA and GATT. Too much of that kind of thing, and the corporate PACs will go running for the Democrats...
...meantime, Buchanan is forcing the rest of the G.O.P. field to concentrate on the pocketbook issues of the unwell-to-do. Last week he was bragging to anyone who would listen: "The Republican Party is becoming the Buchanan Party." The G.O.P. Establishment didn't believe it. But they were listening hard...
...Reported by Nina Burleigh with Buchanan, and Tom Curry/New York
WHERE DOES PATRICK BUCHANAN GET HIS ECOnomic ideas? When asked by TIME to name his gurus, he spoke admiringly of an obscure German economist named Wilhelm Ropke, who died in 1966. But Ropke would probably have mixed feelings about Buchanan's populism. The economist served on Germany's unemployment commission until Hitler took power in 1933 and fired him. Ropke went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like...