Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the 1928 Yankees," Gergen said. "We had a good speechwriting team then." Former Republican presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan and MTV personality Ben Stein alsowrote for Nixon at that time...
...Conservative Robert Novak is upset not just because America did nothing wrong, but because in his warped view, slavery was something right. After noting some prominent black Americans, Novak arrogantly said that "if it hadn't been for slavery, they wouldn't even be in America, would they?" Pat Buchanan seems to be in denial about the horrors of slavery, remarking in his syndicated column that "America deserves better than to have Clinton romping around sub-Saharan Africa, counting cheap graces by apologizing for sins this nation never committed." What's more, Buchanan believes that since his own ancestors never...
...seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist in plaguing a whole segment of American citizens. While we must look towards the future, the contemporary problems most immediately affecting...
...Buchanan also seems to think that because neither he nor members of his direct lineage were responsible for slavery, he is excused from collective responsibility. I find this notion most ironic. How quick Buchanan and other white Americans are to excuse themselves from the collective responsibility they have by virtue of their membership in the dominant ruling majority, since they individually did nothing to deserve such "burdens." Yet how reticent they are on giving up the collective privileges of that membership--their access to a power structure against which blacks can never openly compete, but which they must struggle...
...expected, the end of civilization as we know it was announced on the back pages. On Feb. 10, 1996, in Philadelphia, while America was distracted by the rise of Pat Buchanan, the fall of Phil Gramm and other trifles, something large happened. German philosophers call such large events world-historical. This was larger. It was species-defining. The New York Times carried it on page...