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50 Years Ago: The Day Nixon Routed the Establishment

November 1, 2019 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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Ten days after the “silent majority” speech, Vice President Spiro Agnew, in Des Moines, launched an assault on the unholy matrimony of media power and liberal bias. Agnew questioned whether the networks near-monopoly over the primary source of information for the American people should be permanently ceded to so tiny …

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Biden Goes All In on the Race Issue

August 9, 2019 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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Migrants have been crossing the Mexican border at a rate of 100,000 a month. If one had to choose a word to describe graphically what is going on, would it not be invasion? Those who believed America’s racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the …

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Is the American Century Over For Good?

February 28, 2019 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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Indulging its hatred of Trump is a preoccupation, an obsession of this capital city. “Politics stops at the water’s edge” was a tradition that, not so long ago, was observed by both parties, particularly when a president was abroad, speaking for the nation. The tradition was enunciated by Sen. Arthur …

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Is This Worse Than ’68?

February 1, 2019October 29, 2018 by Patrick J. Buchanan

Saturday, in Pittsburgh, a Sabbath celebration at the Tree of Life synagogue became the site of the largest mass murder of Jews in U.S. history. Eleven worshippers were killed by a racist gunman.

Friday, we learned the identity of the crazed criminal who mailed pipe bombs to a dozen leaders of the Democratic Party, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

From restaurants to Capitol corridors, this campaign season we have seen ugly face-offs between leftist radicals and Republican senators.

Casualty Lists From the Kavanaugh Battle

May 23, 2019October 9, 2018 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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After a 50-year siege, the great strategic fortress of liberalism has fallen. With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court seems secure for constitutionalism â€” perhaps for decades. The shrieks from the gallery of the Senate chamber as the vote came in on Saturday, and the sight of …

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A Fascist Right â€” or a Hysterical Left?

A Fascist Right — or a Hysterical Left?

February 1, 2019June 26, 2018 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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If Trump’s supporters are truly “a basket of deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” and “irredeemable,” as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them? So a growing slice of the American left has come to believe. …

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With Nixon in â€™68: The Year America Came Apart

With Nixon in ’68: The Year America Came Apart

June 16, 2020May 1, 2018 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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– The Wall Street Journal On the night of Jan. 31, 1968, as tens of thousands of Viet Cong guerrillas attacked the major cities of South Vietnam, in violation of a Lunar New Year truce, Richard Nixon was flying secretly to Boston. At 29, and Nixon’s longest-serving aide, I was …

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Will the Deep State Break Trump?

February 1, 2019March 22, 2018 by Patrick J. Buchanan

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“It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson’s authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon,” wrote David Broder on Oct. 8, 1969. “The likelihood is great that they will succeed again.” A columnist for The Washington Post, …