Like Duke, he is an isolationist. According to Buchanan, President Bush "is a globalist, and we are nationalists. He would put America's wealth and power at the service of some new world order; we will put America first." While Duke is widely shunned, Buchanan is expected to receive at least 25 percent of the Republican vote in the New Hampshire primary. Unlike Duke, Buchanan is a popular member of the Washington Establishment. As a speech writer for Richard Nixon and as Ronald Reagan's director of communications, he established solid credentials as a Republican Party activist. Through his syndicated columns and regular television appearances, his opinions have reached millions. As the son of two survivors of the Holocaust, I am terrified by Buchanan's respectability. The difference between him and Duke is one of aesthetics and packaging rather than substance. True, Buchanan is not a would-be storm trooper, but that hardly makes him more palatable. Buchanan's true personality came to the fore last year, just before the Gulf war, when he updated the anti-Semitic rhetoric of the 1930s and '40s. In 1941, Charles Lindbergh, one of the most prominent of the pro-Fascist America- Firsters of that era, charged that "the three most important groups who have been pressing this country to war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Buchanan said on national television, "There are only two groups that are beating the drums right now for war in the Middle East, and that is the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the United States." Shortly thereafter, Buchanan, who has referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied" territory, singled out former New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, columnist Charles Krauthammer and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- all Jews with decidedly Jewish names -- as promoters of a U.S.-Iraq war. He also wrote in one of his columns that the Americans who would die in such a war were "kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez and Leroy Brown." Buchanan has championed the cause of a succession of Nazi war criminals, and on one occasion argued that it would have been impossible for Jews to perish in the gas chambers of the Treblinka death camp. Buchanan has even expressed admiration for Hitler himself. In 1977, he wrote: "Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier ... a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him." Most leaders of the Republican Party have never publicly condemned Buchanan's poison-mongering. They do not seem to realize that the evil he epitomizes befouls them by association. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-01-05-9201010727-story.html
Like Duke, he is an isolationist. According to Buchanan, President Bush "is a globalist, and we are nationalists. He would put America's wealth and power at the service of some new world order; we will put America first."
While Duke is widely shunned, Buchanan is expected to receive at least 25 percent of the Republican vote in the New Hampshire primary. Unlike Duke, Buchanan is a popular member of the Washington Establishment. As a speech writer for Richard Nixon and as Ronald Reagan's director of communications, he established solid credentials as a Republican Party activist. Through his syndicated columns and regular television appearances, his opinions have reached millions.
As the son of two survivors of the Holocaust, I am terrified by Buchanan's respectability. The difference between him and Duke is one of aesthetics and packaging rather than substance. True, Buchanan is not a would-be storm trooper, but that hardly makes him more palatable.
Buchanan's true personality came to the fore last year, just before the Gulf war, when he updated the anti-Semitic rhetoric of the 1930s and '40s. In 1941, Charles Lindbergh, one of the most prominent of the pro-Fascist America- Firsters of that era, charged that "the three most important groups who have been pressing this country to war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Buchanan said on national television, "There are only two groups that are beating the drums right now for war in the Middle East, and that is the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the United States."
Shortly thereafter, Buchanan, who has referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied" territory, singled out former New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, columnist Charles Krauthammer and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- all Jews with decidedly Jewish names -- as promoters of a U.S.-Iraq war. He also wrote in one of his columns that the Americans who would die in such a war were "kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez and Leroy Brown."
Buchanan has championed the cause of a succession of Nazi war criminals, and on one occasion argued that it would have been impossible for Jews to perish in the gas chambers of the Treblinka death camp.
Buchanan has even expressed admiration for Hitler himself. In 1977, he wrote: "Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier ... a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him."
Most leaders of the Republican Party have never publicly condemned Buchanan's poison-mongering. They do not seem to realize that the evil he epitomizes befouls them by association.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-01-05-9201010727-story.html
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