Of course the book is going to say the sky is falling. That is the point of a jeremiad.
Pat was yelling about immigration before anyone else. Only lately has the American public recognized that something needed to be done -- that it was a matter of short- and long-term security for the nation. But their slowness in recognizing the importance of the immigration issue did not keep them from immediately smearing him as racist, xenophobic, anti-Hispanic, etc... until of course it became the zeitgeist for us to start getting hinky about the reality of out-of-control immigration. Now everybody on this forum, as well as a majority of the general public, admits to thinking like Pat on immigration.
Hypocrites.
Buchanan said it first... people on the left (and many even here) poison debate by calling him a racist or anti-semite. It is a really effective technique, though morally reprehensible. But it works: They bashed McCarthy, Swiftboat Veterans, Buchanan. The uncritical all join in the bashing, until their noise is all you hear, and the truth is drowned out for a generation.
All you have to do is read Pat's autobiography, Right From the Beginning, to discover whether or not he is racist or antisemitic. Read it, I challenge you, bashers of Buchanan, and discover for yourselves that he is not.
Excellent, excellent post!
You miss the point. Anyone who puts the USA before Israel is called anti-semitic automatically.
Both of you, along with many others have hit the nail on the head! Too many don’t like the message that Pat brings. but by God he has identified the problems our nation faces and unless we come to terms with it...........!