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Buchanan talks about appeasement in foreign policy and raising tariffs. He disses capitalism a lot. How is this conservative? His populist rhetoric does sound similar to Hitler's early rhetoric in a lot of ways except he doesn't want to conquer the world.

Buchanan disses capitalism??? Man, what are you smoking? There has never been a greater supporter of the free enterprise system than Patrick J. Buchanan. Your misconceived statements prove that you have no idea what a free enterprise system really is? I’ll give you a hint—it has nothing to do with globalist managed “free trade”. First of all, the word “capitalism” is a term coined by Karl Marx himself the author of the Communist Manifesto. The West has subsequently adopted Marxist economic terms and policies even while the number of Communist countries have been reduced.

Buchanan disses rich capitalist multinational corporations that put America Last by shipping American jobs and strategic industries abroad resulting in the deinstrialization of America. These same rich capitalist MNC anti-American fat cats have no problem building up the greatest mass-murdering regime in world history, Communist China, into the best nuclear superpower enemy that US trade surplus money can buy! You apparently oppose tariffs against Communist China and would favor the current system of US taxpayer subsidized trade with the Butchers of Beijing. How the heck can you sanctimoniously claim that fighting for America and Americans is in anyway a policy of “appeasement” or “dissing capitalism?”

Buchanan is a conservative’s conservatives. Always has been and always will be. He makes Dubya look like a veritable Marxist in comparison. Then you have the gall to repeat the Commie smear that Buchanan’s rhetoric sounds similar to Hitler’s. Oh well, I guess that blows away any pretense of your imagined conservative credentials. You know they say that a man is best defined by the enemies he makes rather than the friends that he keeps. Great statesman and the Lord's greatest prophets throughout history have never been short of enemies for the truth is perceived as offensive by many in each successive generation of humanity. Buchanan, a great statesman in his own right, is no exception. With enemies like you and the rest of the liberal internationalist hordes, Pat Buchanan’s conservative stature is made all the greater so by all means keep up the Commie smear talk.against him.

TJ wanted low revenue tariffs instead of an income tax he did not want "protective" tariffs.

No, that is false. TJ wanted moderate revenue producing protective tariffs, just like virtually all the other founding fathers of our great republic. One-hundred and fifty years of tariffs built America into the most dynamic, most expansive economic power on the planet as conclusively proved in Pat Buchanan’s book. Why, you ask? Because the tariff has been declared by classical free market economists, most notably the founding fathers, to be the least oppressive method of taxation yet imagined by man. This is because it taxes only indirectly by raising the costs of certain goods. Unlike the Marxist graduated income tax whose abolition Pat and I have long favored, there is no direct taxation involved and no oppressive intrusion into individual privacy. There is no state power of enforcement. No IRSS to intimidate law-abiding Americans. Moderate revenue based tariffs are what built the US into an industrial powerhouse by protecting our industries against UNFAIR trade practices like dumping, not FAIR competition.

Best of all, the tariff is an elective tax, which means that if you don’t want to “pay it” as an American you don’t have to. All you have to do is avoid buying those foreign goods which were subjected to a tariff. So let’s review the benefits of the tariff—increased revenue, drastically lower or abolished income taxes, evisceration or abolition of the IRSS, more and far higher paying US manufacturing jobs, a more solid and reliable US economic expansion the re-industrialization of the United States, the defunding and de-industrialization of our enemy Communist China and more. The restoration of sensible moderate revenue based tariffs would mean the reduction of US reliability, dependency and vulnerability on foreign sources for the production of both economic goods and strategic military systems so that the US would not be cut off and unduly effected in a national security crisis. Far greater economic and military self-sufficiency for the US. Did I miss anything?