No, but you can pretty easily understand where Will would stand if he were alive today. Shoulder to shoulder with Buchanan. He was scheduled to meet with other Conservative Democrats, to plan ways to fight Roosevelt's great turn to the Left, when he was killed in an accident.
Pat is guilty only of understatement, here. The President & Rove's real failure--and it underpins their shallow analysis, because they do not even see the real issue--is to firmly identify with their own people. Before you even address policy questions, you need an orientation. They show no basic American orientation. Their proposals are all driven by economics or political expediency--however flawed their perceptions of both--but there is no real ethnic pride or identification reflected in any of them.
One can embrace the idea of international friendship. One can applaud efforts to make peoples friendlier to one another. One can encourage commerce and trade, work for world peace and understanding, etc., etc.. But none of such concerns relieve anyone of the fact that they have roots. None of us sprang full grown, armed and shield in hand from the head of Father Zeus! Americans have roots; and most of us have loyalty to the ongoing American society; the descendants of those who built America. No where in Bush's policy on immigration, does one gather any sense at all, that he has such identification. Pat Buchanan does, and that makes him head and shoulders a better man than the President.
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