Daily reminder that Pat Buchanan fingered all the Neocons as closet Trotskyists and Communists who agree with Marx but reject Sovietism before most of you were even born.
Ripped straight from his own Shekelpedia article:
Buchanan vocally opposes those neoconservatives whom he calls "undocumented aliens from the Left, carrying with them the viruses of statism and globalism." He describes their first generation as people who began as "Trotskyist, socialists or Social Democrat," then became "JFK-LBJ Democrats," but broke with the Left during the Vietnam War and "came into their own" during Reagan's administration. He said he welcomed neoconservatives during the early 1970s, but that it has become an inquisition, "hurling anathemas at any who decline to embrace their revised dogmas." Buchanan compares "Neocons" to squatters who take over a once-beloved home (the Republican Party) and convert it into a crack house.
Buchanan also denies the neoconservative maxim that the United States is "the first universal nation," one that embodies rational, democratic principles about freedom, equality and virtue that are applicable everywhere. About sharing a common heritage, culture and language, he says:
He also says that America's modern-day sexual immorality and "imperial decadence" are not worth emulating. In his opinion,
In March 2003, Buchanan wrote an American Conservative cover story arguing that neoconservatives want "to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interest." He claimed that Lawrence Kaplan, David Brooks, Max Boot, Robert Kagan and others used charges of anti-Semitism to intimidate Iraq War critics. Buchanan wrote that the American national interest is at stake and "warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon." He argued that a group of "polemicists and public officials" was "colluding with Israel" to start wars, wreck the Oslo Accords, damage US relations with Arab states, alienate Western and Islamic allies, and threaten the peace won by winning the Cold War.
Buchanan has also said "Our democracy is a fraud. It's a consumer fraud."
Pat Buchanan calls himself a "traditional conservative, in contrast to neoconservatives or "Rockefeller Republicans."
Some of Buchanan's contemporary positions reflect the influence of the magazine Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Buchanan decries US entry into the Spanish–American War and most wars since, and supports abolishing many government agencies, such as the United States Department of Education and the Bureau of Land Management. Buchanan said in 2005:
Following his return to the US Republican Party, he maintains the party has largely abandoned traditional anti-war, anti-imperialist conservative principles in favor of neoconservatism. On MSNBC before the 2006 State of the Union Address, he characterized President George W. Bush as a "Great Society" Republican:
He says both parties are now barely distinguishable. He told a public radio interviewer that:
Any Holla Forumsack that hasn't read Pat Buchanan needs to rectify that as soon as possible. He is required reading.