By Patrick J. Buchanan “As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.” Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced. Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future […]
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species?
Thursday - January 5, 2017 at 11:48 pm
Votes: 4.68 Stars!
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8 December 2016 
Votes: 4.77 Stars!
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Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?
Thursday - December 8, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Votes: 4.77 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA appears to be a lead indicator of a coming revolution far beyond Reagan’s. “Trump Taps Climate Skeptic For Top Environmental Post,” said The Wall Street Journal. “Climate Change Denial,” bawled a disbelieving New York […]
Is Obama’s World a Utopian Myth?
Friday - November 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Votes: 4.90 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: “(W)e are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ … “(T)he future of […]
20 October 2016 
Votes: 4.74 Stars!
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An Establishment in Panic
Thursday - October 20, 2016 at 8:37 pm
Votes: 4.74 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.” “That’s horrifying,” said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all […]
Is Charlotte Our Future?
Tuesday - September 27, 2016 at 12:13 am
Votes: 4.86 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Celebrating the racial diversity of the Charlotte protesters last week, William Barber II, chairman of the North Carolina NAACP, proudly proclaimed, “This is what democracy looks like.” Well, if Barber is right, so, too, was John Adams, who warned us that “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders […]
Last Chance for the ‘Deplorables’
Monday - September 12, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Votes: 4.77 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan Speaking to 1,000 of the overprivileged at an LGBT fundraiser, where the chairs ponied up $250,000 each and Barbra Streisand sang, Hillary Clinton gave New York’s social liberals what they came to hear. “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” smirked Clinton […]
The Real Existential Threats of 2016
Monday - August 15, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Votes: 4.72 Stars!Loading...By Patrick J. Buchanan On Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, the national debt is projected to reach $19.3 trillion. With spending on the four biggest budget items — Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, defense — rising, and GDP growing at 1 percent, future deficits will exceed this year’s projected $600 billion. National bankruptcy, […]
