Word: buchananism
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...didn't like Buchanan, I should get out of Massachusetts, the thirty-something man in the green down jacket and brown standard issue pants told me as we stood there in the snow awaiting the candidate for whom he was shouldering two wooden-piked campaign placards...
...revolutionary battlefield that made Lexington famous is now the center of an affluent suburb, and the one campaign stop Buchanan's men had plotted for this state. Minuteman imagery aside, this was a sublime opportunity for the candidate. Here he would be in the crossfire and be winning. The podium was backed by a red and blue striped and white starred banner; it was surrounded by the Secret Service. Roped in front, about 100 agitated supporters stood, patiently awaiting the descent of their savior who was to arrive some 20 minutes late on a hired...
...News set up camp on the press platform, the producer somewhat nervous of the weather, of the logistics and, more significantly, of the fellow in front of the network's camera who might just prevent their soundbite capture. Lucky for them, this fellow raised his Buchanan posters above their video camera so that he would be able to block the camera from Lexington High instead. The kid from the high school had come out there with a paper sign taped to his baseball cap identifying himself as press; had thought to grab a garbage bag to cover the equipment...
...really hadn't thought of Buchanan as a reality before the rally, perhaps because I couldn't believe that he had a constituency. But the working men in union caps and young guys with POW/MIA flags and army boots, the reverent women and their little ducks and that old man chanting about patriotism--they got to me. They were mad, mad at everybody, and it's not even necessary to go through the multi-cultural litany because we all know that they just don't give a shit about anyone that's not like them. And why should they? Believing...
...Buchanan arrived with his Bible and his Constitution and his national socialism, otherwise known as Nazism. The supporters cheered. The protesters booed. The news clips told of ideological conflict...