Word: buchananism
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...debater's edge he has polished as a television shout-show panelist helped Buchanan frame his differences with Bush in only 41 words: "He is a globalist and we are nationalists. He believes in some Pax Universalis; we believe in the old Republic. He would put America's wealth and power at the service of some vague New World Order; we will put America first." Buchanan believes that the U.S. has no business promoting democracy abroad now that the cold war is history. He wants to end direct foreign aid and curtail U.S. participation in the World Bank. Buchanan would...
...While Buchanan is by far the most extreme neo-isolationist to declare his candidacy, other versions of that creed are erupting all along the political spectrum. The redefinition of U.S. priorities and interests in the post-cold war world is a subject that cries out for cool debate. But what the country has been handed in the slow-starting presidential campaign is mostly warm mush...
Whatever the merits of Buchanan's arguments, mushiness is not his problem. His goal is not to win the nomination -- though he would surely accept it if a near-miracle occurred -- but to pressure Bush to move to the right by garnering a large share of votes in several primaries. Though Buchanan's America-first ideology is dismissed as unrealistic by those he derisively labels "the globalist foreign policy contingent in both parties," appealing to isolationism is a powerful political weapon...
That consensus has imploded with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now that the Red Menace is gone, so-called paleoconservatives like Buchanan see no justification for vigorous American involvement abroad. Like many liberals -- and most of the Democratic presidential candidates -- Buchanan initially opposed Bush's aggressive response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. He contended that U.S. security interests defined only in the most narrow sense warranted going to war. Meanwhile some Democrats are arguing that all could be made well at home if the U.S. would only adopt a more protectionist trade policy, shielding American firms from foreign...
...wing faction that has long distrusted Bush. Both moderate and conservative New Hampshire Republicans, who rescued Bush's faltering nomination campaign in 1988, now feel resentful and abandoned. In that contest Bush vowed not to raise taxes, a pledge he broke in agreeing to the 1990 deficit-reduction deal. Buchanan slams the President on that issue in every speech...