By Patrick J. Buchanan

“All is race,” wrote Benjamin Disraeli, “there is no other truth.”

What Disraeli meant by race is what Winston Churchill meant when he spoke of “our island race” — a tribe, an ethnic group, a people unique and separate from all others.

Disraeli saw the Irish in Britain as a breed apart, an alien race:

“This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry (i.e., Catholicism). Their history describes an unbroken circuitry of bigotry and blood.”