Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of the groups the Republicans are scapegoating are responsible for declining wages, lawoffs, transference of jobs to Third World countries, the savings and loans disatster, the Mexican bailout, NAFTA, GATT, militarism, the budget deficit or the serious environmental crisis. The blame should rightly be placed with those institutions with real economic and political power--the large corporations...
...warns that a good many G.O.P. freshmen were elected with a campaign message not unlike the one Buchanan offers: trade protectionism, social conservatism and something not so different from isolationism in foreign affairs. that's why, once in washington, they were out front in the fight against NAFTA, the Mexican bailout and the U.S. mission in Bosnia. Those Buchanan-ish freshmen, Scarborough insists, have grasped themes that are key to the future strength of the G.O.P. coalition. "We finally have a group of Republicans who know how to appeal to people who are earning $30,000 or less...
...doesn't matter to you? With all that as prelude, it may no longer be necessary for Buchanan to practice an explicit anti-Semitism. The name game is enough. Let him cite some act of economic villainy--trade deals, for instance, or the effort to push the Mexican bailout through Congress--and he's apt to put a Jewish name at the scene of the crime. His favorites are Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Buchanan insists he's not sending out an anti-Semitic signal. Somehow anti-Semites...
...Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." After reviewing Buchanan...
...wiped out in those businesses hurt by imports. Even the much despised movement of American factories to Mexico and other low-wage countries has been offset--in job creation, though not in hoopla-by the opening of foreign--owned plants in the U.S. It would take a string of Mexican maquiladoras to match the Honda plants in Ohio that employ 11,200 workers...