Word: buchananism
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...career at Legal Times, where she made use of her law degree from George Washington University, before moving on to Esquire and the New Republic. Since joining TIME in 1988, she has written in-depth profiles of personalities ranging from presidential candidates Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan to actress Katharine Hepburn and comic Billy Crystal. "The challenge is to find the politics in Billy Crystal and the humor in Bill Clinton," she says. Her most recent subject was the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton, in an article that ran in the Man of the Year issue...
POLITICAL RENEGADE PAT BUCHANAN RAISED HIS UMBRELLA AGAINST the gray, damp sky last week as he surveyed the line of guests filing into the White House for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. "The last roll call," he said...
...chance to present the most popular Republican in 50 years, creator of a whole class of political converts known as Reagan Democrats. What did they do? They had Ronald Reagan speak near midnight, when most of America was fast asleep. Who got the prime 9 o'clock spot? Pat Buchanan with his promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America at its best: a couple of soldiers pointing...
...riot control -- Buchanan's image was drawn from the Los Angeles riots -- is a necessary function of government. But for most Americans it is not the apotheosis of the American Dream. It is the apotheosis of the police state...
...Duke case is easy. Only a few years ago, the man was selling Mein Kampf from his legislative office. The hard case is Buchanan. An affable and engaging man, a man of proven political courage and loyalty, he has taken to trafficking in nativism, authoritarianism, isolationism and anti-Semitism. The narrow and angry conservatism that Buchanan represents does not just violate the optimistic, expansive spirit of Reaganism. It is the surest ticket back to the intellectual and political marginality in which conservatism languished before Buckley began cleaning up the movement four decades...