It used to be that the media slammed Buchanan as an “anti-Semite”. But now that anti-Semitism by the Left is considered cool, they just brand him as racist.
Setting up the liberal straw-man 101: Why does NBC News want to show Pat Buchanan and the rise of populism???
Because Buchanan waged a populist campaign against sitting President George H.W. Bush in 1992. Now NBC News can morph Donald Trump into Pat Buchanan, then tell you Buchanan is racist and addle-brained hoping you will project this image onto Trump.
Trump has made NBC a lot of money over the years. They don’t want to start out of the gate viciously attacking him so they will construct their surrogate - Pat Buchanan - and tell you Trump is basically this year’s Pat Buchanan.
Insightful
Good commentary. Agree with your point, NBC wants to trot out Pat to try and claim all consideration of border control is racist.
Also good observation on the anti-semitic angle. I am still trying to figure out how that “brand of opinion” suddenly is ok now that Obama has adopted it. We talk about rapid acceptance of gay marriage over the last couple years. Support for Israel has also done a 180 here in a crazy short time.
I agree with your assessment. And of course, MSNBC is getting desperate to raise their ratings.