The great Patrick Buchanan retired from journalism this past January. Buchanan was a fine conservative who sought to save the Republican Party from the neoconservatives. He ran for President in 1992 and 1996.
Buchanan served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. After the Cold War, he became an anti war conservative and his ideas were later shared by Donald Trump. Buchanan opposed the Gulf War in 1990 and denounced the neocons.
In 1992, the neocon establishment closed ranks behind the elder Bush and defeated Buchanan. At the Republican National Convention Buchanan gave a great speech referring to the religious and cultural war under way for the soul of America. Buchanan anticipated the problems America would have by intervening in other countries and the rise of the LGBT movement.
In 1996, Buchanan won the Republican primary in New Hampshire. The neocons succeeded in defeating him much as they would later work to bring down Donald Trump. In 2003, Buchanan became a founder of the American Conservative which opposed the Iraq War from the very beginning.
Buchanan proved to be correct on Iraq and the Middle East. Buchanan opposed the expansion of NATO. He was right when so many foreign policy “experts” were wrong. His voice will be missed but at least his ideas live on in Donald Trump’s candidacy for President.