Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:03 pm
Once upon a time there was a Republican who left the party because, he said, it was too “crazy right,” and who accused Pat Buchanan, who was running for president, of being an anti-Semite and lambasted him as a “Hitler lover.†Now that Republican, Donald J. Trump, is the Republican over whom people are leaving the party.
And the irony of it is that they are leaving it for the same reason Trump left it.
The worm has turned, ladies and gentlemen. Back in 1999, Trump said Buchanan represented the “really staunch right wacko vote.” Whose got the “right wacko vote” now? Donald Trump, and guess who is defending him? Pat Buchanan, who recently called Trump “the Great White Hope” now asks, “what did Trump do to be smeared by a bipartisan media mob as a “racistâ€?
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Yes. He really asked that.
Don’t for a minute think this new bromance is completely one-sided. As early as January Trump was watching Buchanan on TV and crowing on twitter:
Pat Buchanan gave a fantastic interview this morning on @CNN – way to go Pat, way ahead of your time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2016
Yep. Now that Trump is sick and disgusting too, Pat Buchanan turns out just to have been “ahead of his time.”
In “THE DONALD & THE LA RAZA JUDGE,” Buchanan “flays ‘Republicans rushing to stomp on Trump’ over heredity remark.” Buchanan says that Trump claims “the judge’s bias is likely rooted in the fact that he is of Mexican descent,” and asks, “Can there be any defense of a statement so horrific?”
You all know answer already, don’t you? Of course Buchanan, never far from his racist roots and Hitler-loving ways, avows that “there are grounds for believing Trump is right.”
At a time when the rest of the Republican Party is fleeing for the hills, Pat Buchanan, like Donald Trump, is doubling down on his racism and criticism of the reality star and mogul amounts to nothing less than “the lynching of The Donald.â€
Because, somehow, in Buchanan’s twisted mind, the metaphorical lynching of Donald Trump can compare to the actual, literal lynching of blacks for simply being black.
Grasping at straws and making totally irrelevant comparisons, Buchanan claimed, “Obama himself attacked the Citizens United decision in a State of the Union address, with the justices sitting right in front of him.”
Yes, but Obama didn’t attack their ruling on the basis of their ethnicity. Obama didn’t say they ruled against him because they’re a bunch of white guys, and he’s black.
Buchanan insists Judge Gonzalo Curiel must be guilty of all the horrible things Trump says about him because “And who is Curiel?” You can hear the unspoken “gotcha!” as Buchanan triumphantly announced, “An appointee of President Obama.”
Yes, he was also appointed to California’s superior court by Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and approved after Obama nominated him by the Senate – and no one objected to his appointment.
Pat Buchanan says,
“Apparently, it is now not only politically incorrect but, in Newt Gingrich’s term, ‘inexcusable’ to bring up the religious, racial or ethnic background of a judge, or suggest this might influence his actions on the bench.”
No, what is inexcusable is judging Judge Curiel solely on the basis of his ethnicity, and claiming at the same time that only white Europeans like Trump could possibly be free of ethnic-taint in their decision-making processes.
Doubling down on his hypocrisy, Buchanan, in the same breath, is saying though it is only fair to question Curiel’s motives, it is “inexcusable” of us to question Trump’s.
The irony above all ironies in this ridiculous charade is that the only person supposedly not a racist, according to Trump and all his supporters, is Donald Trump!
Poor Donald Trump is a victim, we are told, and Buchanan makes himself a victim as well as he tells us,
“To many liberals, all white Southern males are citizens under eternal suspicion of being racists. The most depressing thing about this episode is to see Republicans rushing to stomp on Trump, to show the left how well they have mastered their liberal catechism.”
No Pat. We’re pretty certain that the racist white southern males (like you) are the ones who says things that Trump himself once called “disgusting” and “sick.”
In a verse apparently left out of the Bibles owned by Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump and any who still support them, the Gospel of Matthew 7:16 tells us, “You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?”
No, indeed you shall not. But thorns and thistles are so…Bronze Age. As John Fugelsang once famously said, “the douche doesn’t fall far from the bag.”
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
