Word: buchananism
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...affairs of state, but it put plenty of money into Senator Jesse Helms' campaign coffers. Subjects on which many Americans have mixed feelings -- including issues of sexual and reproductive morality -- can easily be inflamed by politicians intent on polarizing the polity. Divide the country, former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan counseled his boss in 1969, and we'll take the larger half. The "Kulturkampf," he resciently observed, would be the conservatives' best friend...
...clear all year that the electorate demanded change. At the beginning of the campaign, Americans seriously flirted with extremists such as Patrick "Holy Warrior" Buchanan and Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, an indication of the electorate's intense desire to alter the status quo. By the end of the election season, dissatisfaction culminated with Bill Clinton capturing more than twice as many Electoral College votes as the incumbent president. Even Ross Perot received extraordinarily strong support as a third party candidate, winning almost one in every five votes cast...
...dabbled and frolicked in them without trying to picture the microscopic galaxies within, the squadrons of spherical space ships knobby with keys for fatally unlocking our cell walls." This stands in contrast not only to the insecure present but also to the staid 19th century morality experienced by Buchanan, whose proper courtship of a Pennsylvania woman ended tragically, first with her breaking off the engagement and then with her sudden, mysterious death...
...long passages that Clayton includes from his never completed book on Buchanan are often impressive and sometimes moving, written in an accurate pastiche of an older and more formal American prose. "All these 19th century people made sense," he tells Genevieve, "in a way we can't any more. They still had a language you could build with." But Clayton's demonstrated writing skill raises some questions. Why is he stuck in a professional dead end, at a backwater junior college? What accounts for his obsessively detailed response to a routine questionnaire...
Lake and Black have many Japanese clients as well, which led Patrick Buchanan in January to liken the two men to "geisha girls of the new world order" and charge that "Mr. Bush's campaign is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Inc." Senior White House officials later pressed Lake and Black to sever ties with their firms to prevent Clinton from capitalizing on the issue, but the effort fizzled. Explains Bush-Quayle counsel Bobby Burchfield: "If you have to sever your ties with business in order to work in presidential campaigns, people will not work in presidential campaigns...