by Chilton Williamson, Jr. – Middle American News

Most of those figures history records as prophets ahead of their times in fact were prophets of their times, addressing a people who remained willfully behind those times. Such was Patrick J. Buchanan when he ran for President, significantly but unsuccessfully, in the national campaigns of 1992 and 1996. I say “unsuccessfully” insofar as he was never inaugurated President of the United States. Otherwise, Buchanan left a significant dent in the American consciousness, one that he has worked strenuously since then to deepen through his literary, rather than by continued political, efforts, with his previous books, including A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; and Where the Right West Wrong. During the early and middle 90s, the times were ripe for Buchanan’s message…