Pat saw Reagan as an economic isolationist, which Buchanan surely is.
9/26/99 - CNN LATE EDITION
"Ronald Reagan was in my judgment the greatest president of the 20th century... Ronald Reagan in his heart was an economic nationalist. Who put those quotas on steel? Who put those quotas on Japanese autos? Who put tariffs on those Japanese motorcycles to save the Harley hog? That is an American."
The funny thing is, the only two politicians pat successfully served was Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon.