Wish you were here.
Posted on 05/08/2017 5:51:48 AM PDT by Rockitz
Book Review
NIXON’S WHITE HOUSE WARS The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever By Patrick J. Buchanan Illustrated. 436 pp. Crown Forum. $30.
Patrick J. Buchanan is a merry troglodyte, a naughty provocateur. He still calls homosexuality “sodomy,” just to get the goat of a community he will only reluctantly call “gay.” He writes that he wanted to be named ambassador to South Africa by President Ford so he could support the apartheid government. He thinks public television is “an upholstered playpen” for liberals. He considers “The New York Times” an epithet. His stump appearances in his outlaw 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns were a guilty pleasure for the reporters who followed him, a hilariously clever, and prescient, exhibition of right-wing populism. “Buchanan,” Richard Nixon once told him, “you’re the only extremist I know with a sense of humor.”
And it is Buchanan, not Nixon, who emerges as the central — and most intriguing — character in “Nixon’s White House Wars,” an entertaining memoir of that benighted presidency. Buchanan’s Nixon is a familiar figure: distant, awkward, smart, defensive and damaged, caring a bit too much what the Establishment — a word Buchanan uses frequently — thinks of him.
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But Nixon sensed that Buchanan was onto something much bigger than vitriol, a new grand strategy for the Republican Party, a new majority anchored by the white working class, not just in the South, but also in the Northern ethnic, mostly Catholic, enclaves. This philosophy has been the driving vision of Buchanan’s life. It has made him one of the most consequential conservatives of the past half-century. Indeed, he’s a reactionary who was also an avatar: the first Trumpist.
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When my daughter was about six, I took her to a Buchanan for President rally. On the way, I was teaching her about voting and asked if she knew what the two major political parties were?
“Republicans and communists?” was her reply.
Good thing I was at a stop light cause I was laughing too hard to drive.
20 years later, she’s a strong conservative. She lives in a very liberal area and was glad she was off work the day after the election. She’d be the only one smiling at work.
That was 92’. If I was a child at the time the parties would be called Democrats and racists.
He calls sodomy, “sodomy?”
Good for him
Often it is the troglodytes who sit back and watch the “progressives” take us down the road of destruction.
As I get older and find different values in my life, I learn that even the Darwin Award is a learning experience for the soul.
Let’s give Obamacare the Darwin Award. It would be a perfect metaphor for what it actually is.
I raise them right.
I remember a large news article interviewing all of the candidates, I think it was in the Detroit News. Each had the same list of questions.
One question: “Do You Recycle?”
Each candidate droned on about how good they were for the environment and concerned and made sure they recycled very drop of spit.
Pat Buchanan: “No.”
I do my best to follow his example. We fill our recycle bin strictly because we get charged by the bag for trash and recycles are no charge. I flat out refuse to clean any recyclables, I also refuse to look on the bottom for the type of plastic to see if it can go in there. If they don’t like, it, let them throw it out.
Earth First — we will strip mine the other planets later.
There’s plenty of room for all God’s creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.
Plants. What food eats.
I love vegetarians, All I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak. Ted Nugent
I would kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Pat was America First before it was cool.
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Wish you were here.
That’s too small. I’ve got a 1:1 scale model of the solar system
Buchanan will be at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. on May 22 at 1:00 PM. The event is free. Come out, buy a book, and get it signed.
I didn’t read the article yet, but this is the third article I’ve seen recently talking about Buchanan being the original Trump.
Before Trump was Buchanan. Before Buchanan, Perot. Before Perot, John Anderson and before John Anderson, George Wallace. They may not have agreed on all things but their basic attitudes and philosophies were very similar. They all ended up being less than Conservative although at one time Buchanan was more or less a Buckley clone. Then he changed.
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