Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics of immigration has created strange alliances and oppositions. Liberal Democrat Eugene McCarthy and Conservative Democrat Richard Lamm favor restricting immigration, as does archconservative Republican Pat Buchanan. Polls by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank, found that African Americans are far more sympathetic than whites to the plight of Haitian refugees, but also far more worried than whites about competition from immigrants for jobs. In Florida's Dade County, where 60% of the residents are now Spanish-speaking, the county commission voted unanimously to repeal a 1980 ordinance making English the sole language...
...demonology of conservative politics, Hackney has become a personification of political correctness, that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan puts it bluntly: "He is a politically correct leftist like Lani Guinier -- a virtuecrat, out of touch with Middle America...
...around the takeout window of the White House mess, greeting his colleagues like a maitre d'. In his first meeting with the communications staff, Gergen tried irony to defuse suspicion among the Young Turks, identifying nearby offices as the old haunts of former colleagues like William Safire and Pat Buchanan. "Are you trying to win us," one staff member asked him jokingly, "or to lose us?" It wasn't a bad question. In an interview with TIME afterward, Gergen said he understood that there might be resentment. "If I had worked my tail off during the campaign and some...
What Harvard has gained with the death of politics is its own cultural war, played out weekly in accusations, responses and general back-biting that would make Patrick Buchanan proud. And the administration is slowly going about the business of institutionalizing this cultural war. Like many liberals, Harvard's administrators avoid an honest discussion of race, fearing they will be labeled "insensitive" for even mentioning cultural difference...
...despises George Bush and Patrick Buchanan, calling the first incompetent, the other hateful. And he wants nothing to do with "country-club Republicans," who he says are just out to line their pockets. His heroes, rather, are Reagan, Jack Kemp and Martin Luther King, an eclectic collection which acquaintances say, "in terms of Harry," is "very sincere...