Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buchanan's conservatism feeds on fear and derision. "You're not doing well? Blame the immigrant who took your job, the New York Jew, 'Bou-Bou Ghali' (I kid you not--his term), the countries with which we trade and the liberals who dilute the American soul." It is the conservatism of the opportunist, and it builds nothing...
WHEN THEY HEAR TALK about heartless employers and greedy corporations, Republicans generally grumble about Democrats waging class war. At least most Republicans do. And then there's Pat Buchanan, warmonger. "Executioners" is what he calls employers like AT&T that lay off thousands of workers. "These companies are like creatures in Jurassic Park," he told TIME last week. And what will his campaign do? "Stand up for the working men and women whose jobs are threatened by unfair trade deals done for the benefit of huge corporations," he told a cheering crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire...
Close your eyes and you might imagine you were hearing Jesse Jackson. Just ask Jackson. He can't stomach Buchanan on any number of grounds, but even he gives him credit for "going to the heart of people's economic fears." To the immense discomfort of his party, Buchanan is bringing the class war home to the heart of the G.O.P. With great success, Republicans have been playing for decades on one enduring strand of populism, a resentment of Big Government. Buchanan has revived another that his party cannot so easily accommodate: hostility to Big Business...
...adds that to a moral conservatism that brought him a good many of the Christian conservative voters in Iowa, despite the support for Bob Dole of the state's Christian Coalition leader. One day after Buchanan took second place there, it was plain he had the front runner spooked. In a speech to the New Hampshire legislature, Dole, as steadfast an example of Republican orthodoxy as the party has ever produced, was suddenly Woody Guthrie. "Corporate profits are setting records and so are corporate layoffs,'' he said. "The real average hourly wage is 5% lower than it was a decade...
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. When Republicans talk this way, it means they have a problem on their hands. Buchanan has pinpointed and energized a constituency that the G.O.P. can ill afford to lose, the Downwardly Mobile Middle Class. But he's done it with a message that the party of freewheeling capitalism can't embrace. It doesn't matter whether he becomes the nominee, an outcome the party professionals still cross their fingers and say is unthinkable. He's tossed a bomb in their midst. The same righteous belligerence he turns against affirmative action...