Buchanan and the Politics of Positive Polarization
[Ed. note - I was tempted to title this 'Pat and the Politics of Positive Polarization' purely for prurient alliterative prosal purposes.]
Turns out, Pat Buchanan was once relevant (h/t Neil):
Nixon and Buchanan visited thirty-five states that fall, and in November the Republicans won a midterm landslide. It was the end of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the beginning of his fall from power. In order to seize the Presidency in 1968, Nixon had to live down his history of nasty politicking, and he ran that year as a uniter. But his Administration adopted an undercover strategy for building a Republican majority, working to create the impression that there were two Americas: the quiet, ordinary, patriotic, religious, law-abiding Many, and the noisy, élitist, amoral, disorderly, condescending Few.
The top of Page Two has the really interesting/damning stuff.
I share Wonkette’s Jim Newell’s surprise that Buchanan handed the stuff over to Packer of his own accord. Then again, he did recently come out and say African-Americans should be grateful for slavery, so maybe his mental ship has just sailed. Insane video of Buchanan on MSNBC last week led one Wonketteer to quip:
Before November, Pat’s going to drop an “N” Bomb. You heard it here first.
Oh, the things people get away with on the television.
Remember, a vote for Democrats in November is a vote against Buchanan’s Horrible Society.
Links:
The Fall of Conservatism [New Yorker]
Why Is Pat Buchanan So Angry These Days, Anyway? [Wonkette]
Programming [Wonkette]
