Word: buchananism
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Examine the politics of disconnection. The 1996 campaign has only hinted at the number of Americans who, disgruntled and disillusioned (even if self-pityingly so), have withdrawn into a passive-aggressive political mode: protest for its own sake. "We're gonna fight until hell freezes over," bellows Pat Buchanan, "and then we're gonna fight on the ice!" Disenchantment, whether idealistic or merely snarling, has produced a permanent American political out group (Buchananites, Perot voters and a much larger constituency of nonvoters) whose unhappiness erupts in periodic aneurysms and whose message to the political process is the passive aggressive...
...THINK MANY AMERICANS ARE fooled by the Republicans' phony populism [COVER, Feb. 26]. The newly discovered proworker, anticorporate stance of Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole, as well as also-ran Lamar Alexander, is antithetical to the policies each has supported for decades. Americans want to merge the mottoes "Republicans want what works" and "Democrats want what is fair." F.D.R. gave America the New Deal; Truman followed with the Fair Deal; Reagan and Bush gave us special deals for the wealthy and secret deals with arms-for-hostages. The American people are tired of deals. Americans want a guiding principle that...
YOUR "GRAND OLD POPULISTS" COVER with Alexander, Buchanan, Dole and Forbes looks like a movie poster for Grumpier Old Men. JOHN CRANE San Francisco...
...MATTER HOW HARD I TRY, I CANNOT figure out American politics. If the big four of the G.O.P.--Dole, Buchanan, Alexander and Forbes--continue to bicker on the same issues, it only raises the question, If they are unable to sort out the rift in the Republican Party, how the hell are they going to successfully manage the most powerful and influential nation in the world? GAVIN BORUCHOWITZ, age 15 Cape Town, South Africa Via E-mail...
...BUCHANAN WILL BECOME THE REPUBLIcans' Jesse Jackson. He may not get the nomination, but like Jackson in 1988, he will dominate the convention, making the G.O.P. nomination a hollow prize and shoring up the re-election of Bill Clinton. GARY SCHWARTZ Fort Lee, New Jersey...