I have no use for Pat Buchanan. His views of Israel and the Jews are just as ignorant and disgusting as the views of such lowlifes as James Carter and Barack Obama. Unlike Carter or Obama, however, there are some issues on which Buchanan is correct.
Anyhow, it seems he’s been banned from MSNBC. Here’s Radio Derb on the issue:
Late October, when Pat last appeared on MSNBC, was shortly after his latest book, Suicide of a Superpower, came out. Sample quote from that splendid book, quote:
The crises that afflict us — culture wars, race division, record deficits, unpayable debt, waves of immigration, legal and illegal, of peoples never before assimilated, gridlock in the capital, and possible defeat in war — may prove too much for our democracy to cope with. They surely will, if we do not act now.
End quote. What kind of action is Pat looking for? He spells it out: Stop garrisoning the world, downsize the federal government, bring back the tariff, overhaul immigration. Along the way, I cannot resist telling you, he quotes me a generous four times. And, full disclosure, I reviewed the book for Taki’s Magazine — favorably, of course.
Pat’s arguments all make perfect sense to me. They are way too much for liberals, though. They were flapping their wrists and squealing in horror at the central notion Pat puts forward: the notion that if the U.S.A. ceases to be majority-white and majority-Christian, it will cease to be a nation of any consequence, and will likely cease to be a nation at all.
Pat may be right on that, or he may be wrong, but we no longer work these things out by open and honest discussion. We deal with them by bullying and ostracism, by censorship and silencing and moralistic shaming. We are halfway to totalitarianism: open and honest discussion, Anglo-Saxon civilization’s great gift to humanity, is no longer a feature of our national life — perhaps, as Pat argues, because we are no longer very Anglo-Saxon.
Or as Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, put it last weekend, quote: “The ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC,” end quote.
Well, well: a prophet is without honor in his own country. Perhaps Pat should move to a different country. How about a small, advanced European country with a pleasant climate and lots of interesting antiquities, where the kinds of ideas offered in Suicide of a Superpower are discussed openly and frankly, are in fact approved of and acted upon by the nation’s executive, legislature, and judiciary, to general public applause? That’s it, Pat, that’s what you need to do — move to Israel!
