So did I mention Pat Buchanan is a fascist?
He supports policies that would lead to an authoritarian corporatist state dedicated to global hegemony.
He admires fascist politicians, like explicitly Hilter.
Pat Buchanan says Adolf Hitler only sought to dominate Europe, making him, “no physical threat to the US” after 1940. He observes that to push Japan into starting a war, Franklin Delano Roosevelt “froze all Japanese assets, cutting off trade, including oil.” He refers to Roosevelt as “a base appeaser of Stalin” and that his administration was “shot through with Communist spies and traitors.” “In World War II,” he writes, “patriots argued the wisdom of FDR’s ‘Europe First’ policy that left our men on Corregidor to the mercy of the butchers of Bataan”. He says, “Responsibility for the lack of American preparedness at the time of Pearl Harbor rests wholly with FDR. He had been in power nine years and had controlled both Houses of Congress for all nine of those years. Blaming our lack of preparedness on the isolationists (or even on the Communists) is the shilling of court historians”.
In a 1977 column, Buchanan said despite Hitler’s anti-Jewish and genocidal tendencies he was “an individual of great courage…Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
He’s also a racist-
In a 2002 speech, he said, “In the next 50 years, the Third World will grow by the equivalent of 30 to 40 new Mexicos. If you go to the end of the century, the white and European population is down to about three percent. This is what I call the death of the West. I see the nations dying when the populations die. I see the civilization dying. It is under attack in our own countries, from our own people.
And believes in Kulturekampf.
Pat Buchanan says that America is divided by a culture war. He calls it a conflict over the power to define society’s definition of right and wrong. Fronts include environmentalism, feminism, abortion, gay rights, freedom of religion, women in combat, display of the Confederate Flag, recognition of Christmas and taxpayer-funded art. He also said that the controversy given this idea of culture wars was itself evidence of polarization.
Pat Buchanan is an unreconstructed, brownshirted, unionist beating Fascist and his opinions about it or instituting a McCarthyite witchhunt on Capitol Hill for communist lefty fifth columnist Congressmen are hardly unbiased.
Fascism is a totalitarian and nationalist ideology. It is primarily concerned with perceived problems associated with cultural, economic, political, and social decline or decadence, and which seeks to solve such problems by achieving a millenarian national rebirth by exalting the nation, protecting the nation from what fascism deems as the excesses of the internationalist ideologies of capitalism and communism by advocating a Third Position, promoting the territorial defense or expansion of a nation through a constant state of military preparedness and promotion of militarism as well as promoting cults of unity, strength and purity.
Are you listening Tweety?
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I should really be doing something else, but I needed to get that off my chest.
…I don’t know how much it is that he is fond of fascism as much as it is he is fond of killing Jews and preserving racial purity. I have little doubt he’d love any communist dictator who liked killing Jews and homosexuals. Ever notice how the National Review types sure hate Lenin and Mao, but are oddly quiet about Stalin? It is always people on the left decrying the Stalinists.
… was a real sidewinder, (cf. definitions 1 and 4)
Are their any current committed Republicans who don’t have, erm…authoritarian tendencies? Besides the die hard’s just holding on to the party out of hope it will be reborn I mean.
Do any of them NOT want to tell other people what to do? And then after that it is just a matter of how far folks will go under what circumstances.
Buchanan’s a classic isolationist, and global hegemony is the last thing he’s interested in. On the contrary, he wants to build a big wall around the country, put the sentries on watch, and let the rest of the world go to hell in a handbasket.
And while I agree 101% that old Patty is a flaming racist, I’m not seeing anything racist in the observation you quoted as a “racist” statement:
Other than the provocative and pointless rhetoric in the last sentence, the rest of the paragraph is nothing more than the sort of number-crunching that gets done all the time. If you define “The West” as “the European peoples, plus their descendants here in the US”, as Buchanan apparently does, then his point is spot-on: “The West” won’t exist in a century. Here in the US, the “minorities” (US-speak for “their grandparents didn’t come from Europe”) will be the majority in 40 years (and a majority in the classrooms in 30 years). In Europe, the native European peoples are not even breeding in replacement numbers, and there is a very real sense — and one I’m not sure I’m completely willing to dispute — that after 1400 years of battling to push back waves of Islamic invasion, that Europe is about to collapse due to the “soft invasion” of massive Muslim immigration across the EU’s “open borders”.