Word: buchananism
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Many Harvard students were disturbed that the Institute of Politics (IOP) invited Pat Buchanan because of his history as a hate-mongering demagogue. Although Buchanan sometimes also advocates legitimate positions, he must be ostracized because of the danger his racist rhetoric poses to our society...
...response to Buchanan (excluding the one or two questions implying that Buchanan is a bigot simply because his views differ from most Kennedy School students) was neither inappropriate nor restricted to liberals trying to silence a conservative speaking at Harvard. Buchanan must be vigorously confronted with his long record of racism at his every appearance to stop him from turning the hateful rhetoric on and off to suit his purposes. Confronting hate-mongers is not the sole province of the left, accepted wisdom in Cambridge notwithstanding. Buchanan's bigotry is not a figment in the imagination of liberals: His anti...
There is something disorienting about being in the company of three Pat Buchanans, especially with one of them referring to himself in the third person. Something in his gaze told me he doesn't ever sleep, and might possibly breathe through his eyes. As I was about to learn, he has been lying in wait for just the right moment to skitter out and chip away at George W. Bush and Al Gore, and that moment has arrived. Buchanan's plans this week include everything from national television appearances to a St. Patrick's Day fund-raising bash...
...John McCain has roiled the waters," says Buchanan, who was born with exclamation points where eyebrows should be. "And now there's tremendous disillusionment that it's over, and we've got these two sticks representing the Establishment of each party. That's our opportunity." An opportunity Buchanan has anticipated, driving his Navigator from one state to another like a tank commander, rounding up signatures to get onto state ballots. The antiestablishmentarians in McCain's army are natural Buchananites, he says. And now that Bush is shuffling back to the center, he thinks religious conservatives are in his pro-life...
...bust in the foyer has a better chance of pulling this all off. "But Pat is a shrewd political analyst, and he'll be very capable of looking at the battlefield and figuring out which wounded to go heal," says McCain strategist Ken Khachigian, who thinks his old friend Buchanan can tip the outcome in November, harassing Gore but potentially torpedoing Bush. Oddly enough, Buchanan might never get the chance. The Reform Party functions like a flophouse for political gypsies and social outcasts, and no two members can agree on the time of day. Jesse Ventura was promoting Donald Trump...