Sunday, March 18, 2018

Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930?

Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930?: By Patrick J. Buchanan

After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.

"The Republican Party has not been this dominant in 90 years," went the exultant claim.

A year later, Republicans lost the governorship of Virginia and almost lost the legislature.

Came then the loss of a U.S. Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama.Read more on Buchanan.Org...

Monday, March 12, 2018

Stormy Daniels truthers see Trump North Korea talks as smokescreen

Stormy Daniels truthers see Trump North Korea talks as smokescreen

Time to Get Over the Russophobia

Time to Get Over the Russophobia: By Patrick J. Buchanan

Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18.

Then we must decide whether to continue on course into a second Cold War, or engage Russia, as every president sought to do in Cold War I.

For our present conflict, Vladimir Putin is not alone at fault. His actions have often been reactions to America's unilateral moves.Read more on Buchanan.Org...

Friday, March 2, 2018

Fatal Delusions of Western Man

Fatal Delusions of Western Man: By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.

"Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?" asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence.

America's elites believed that economic engagement and the opening of U.S. markets would cause the People's Republic to coexist benignly with its neighbors and the West.

We deluded ourselves. It did not happen.

Xi Jinping just changed China's constitution to allow him to be dictator for life.Read more on Buchanan.Org...