I just made a post on another thread about what Buckley thought about Buchanan. It may have been in the famous essay everyone quotes. Buckley wrote: “Buchanan is more of a prophet than a politician, and if the country is to be saved, it will be along the lines laid down by Buchanan.” That quote is from memory, but is probably 90% accurate. Joseph Sobran critized Buckley about the anti-Semitism thing; Buckley fired him, but they later got together and reconciled. I’ve always been a Buckley fan, and I kept up with him.
Here’s another Buckley quote, “I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it.”