Let’s Build a Statue Honoring Pat Buchanan ｜ 5⧸15⧸25
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Summary
The life of the unheated prophet rarely ends in comfort and often courts danger. Pat Buchanan endured both with the resolve of a warrior. As the most prominent paleoconservative in American politics, Buchanan stood so far ahead of his time that today s conservative agenda looks like a photocopy of his 1992 presidential campaign platform. From the culture war to working class economics and immigration, Buchanan served as the American Cassandra, right about nearly every major question yet scorned by Republican elites. Pundits and politicians dismissed him as a bigot, a racist, an anti-Semite, even likening him to a Nazi.
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The life of the unheated prophet rarely ends in comfort and often courts danger.
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Pat Buchanan endured both with the resolve of a warrior.
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As the most prominent paleoconservative in American politics,
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Buchanan stood so far ahead of his time that today's MAGA agenda
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looks like a photocopy of his 1992 presidential campaign platform.
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From the culture war to working-class economics and immigration,
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right about nearly every major question yet scorned by Republican elites.
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Pundits and politicians dismissed him as a bigot,
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a racist, an anti-Semite, even likening him to a Nazi.
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Many of the loudest voices came from within his own party.
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And decades later, nearly all of his predictions have come true.
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He kept the torch of paleoconservatism burning when no one else would.
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And that torch lit the fire of the MAGA movement.
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Buchanan rose to prominence as a newspaper columnist and editor
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before joining President Richard Nixon's White House
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He later became a fixture on TV shows like Crossfire and the McLaughlin Group
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as Ronald Reagan's communication director from 1985 to 1987.
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Buchanan could have coasted on that kind of resume, but he didn't.
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Instead, he broke with the GOP's managerial globalist consensus
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In 1992, he ran against George H.W. Bush in the Republican primary,
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furious over the president's betrayal of his no-new-taxes pledge.
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But Buchanan's campaign wasn't just about tax policy.
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along with the long-term consequences of mass migration.
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In his famous culture war speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention,
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He challenged the entire direction of the American ruling class.
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My friends, this election is about more than who gets what.
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It's about what we believe and what we stand for as Americans.
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There's a religious war going on in this country.
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As critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itself.
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When does fast grocery delivery through Instacart matter most?
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When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard.
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When the barbecue's lit, but there's nothing to grill.
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When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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After two more failed presidential bids, Buchanan returned to writing and commentary.
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He published several influential books, including The Death of the West and Suicide of the Superpower,
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launched the American Conservative magazine, and penned columns for Vidare.
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At every turn, he tackled controversial topics.
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Foreign intervention, demographic transformation, and the destruction of the American middle class.
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While neoconservatives dominated Republican politics, Buchanan stood firm,
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laying the groundwork for the civil war that now rages inside the GOP.
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They want a politics that serves their families, communities, and country.
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Conservatism shouldn't revolve around abstractions, but should exist to preserve a way of life.
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Despite the conservative label, Republican leadership made it clear that it only cared about cutting taxes
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Then came Donald Trump, who bulldozed the GOP establishment by campaigning to secure the border,
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protect American workers, and end forever wars.
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That's why it was so great to see Donald Trump's electoral victory,
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along with the cultural and political momentum that the right just hasn't had
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But we also know that the fight is far from over,
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As millennial and Gen Z conservatives came of age under Trump,
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many sought intellectual roots for the movement.
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Paul Gottfried, Samuel Francis, and most of all, Pat Buchanan.
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Clips of Buchanan's speeches and passages from his books
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revealing a man who diagnosed America's decline with uncanny foresight.
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He has become, retroactively, the elder statesman of the new right,
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an inspiration to a generation of conservatives
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eager to challenge the party line and reclaim their country.
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Buchanan's return to prominence hasn't gone unnoticed
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by establishment conservatives or the legacy press.
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Neoconservatives have taken to calling Trump supporters
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a clumsy insult aimed at discrediting the movement by association.
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The article begrudgingly acknowledged suicide of a superpower
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but framed this influence as toxic, an engine of xenophobia and racism.
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In a time when the GOP sold out to neoconservative globalism,
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He took on the thankless task of warning his party and his country
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Mass migration, national decline, foreign entanglements,
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long before anyone in power was ready to listen.
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And for his efforts, he was ridiculed, condemned, and cast aside.
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The left has been tearing down everything that is beautiful about our society.
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It has been tearing down the statues of our American founders.
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We must erect monuments to men who stand firm when it matters most.
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but we can honor him now while he's still here to see it.
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One that pays tribute to the man who carried the torch through the wilderness
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and lit the way for the movement that would make America great again.
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And if you haven't subscribed yet, now is a great time to do so.
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I'm pretty serious about looking into building a statue in honor of Pat Buchanan.
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If you guys have suggestions on where you think that monument should be built,
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if you would be someone who supports it, if you know about the process,
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I haven't figured everything out yet, but I think this is something that we should actually
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