Boehner’s Right — It’s Trump’s Party Now
If the Bush-Boehner Republican Party is "napping," let it slumber on, undisturbed, for its time has come and gone. We are in a new world now. ...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
Is America’s Racial Divide Permanent?
For Roseanne Barr, star of ABC's hit show Roseanne, there would be no appeal. When her tweet hit, she was gone. ...
Is US Bellicosity Backfiring?
U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang appears to be intimidated. ...
Can a Pope Change Moral Truth?
That joking retort we heard as children, "Is the pope Catholic?" is starting to look like a serious question. ...
A Trump Doctrine for Singapore and Beyond
At Singapore, both sides will have demands, and both will have to offer concessions, if there is to be a deal. ...
Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now?
We appear to be at the beginning of a new war, and how it ends we know not. ...
Don’t Trash the Nuclear Deal!
The Israelis, Saudis and Beltway War Party want the deal trashed, because they want a U.S. clash with Iran. They are not afraid of war. ...
Memo to Trump: Defy Mueller
If Donald Trump does not wish to collaborate in the destruction of his presidency, he will refuse to be questioned by the FBI, or by a grand jury, or...
Smut Night at the Press Dinner
Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who "speak truth to power," has to be the worst...
Macron: The Last Multilateralist
The ideas of Emmanuel Macron seem to be less about tomorrow than yesterday. For the world he celebrates is receding into history. ...
America’s Unsustainable Empire
How long can this country, with its shrinking share of global GDP, sustain its expanding commitments to confront and fight all over the world? ...
Why the Authoritarian Right Is Rising
The democracy worshippers of the West cannot compete with the authoritarians in meeting the crisis of our time because they do not see what is happening to the West...
Trump: Prisoner of the War Party?
The War Party that Trump routed in the primaries is capturing and crafting his foreign policy. ...
Is Trump Standing Down in Syria?
Emotions should not be allowed to overrule what the president has thought and expressed many times: While the outcome of Syria's civil war may mean everything to Assad, and...
Has the War Party Hooked Trump?
With his Sunday tweet that Bashar Assad, "Animal Assad," ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just...
Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals
If U.S. troops do remain in Syria, the probability is high that Trump, like Presidents Bush and Obama before him, will be ensnared indefinitely in the Forever War of...
How Trump’s Presidency Will Be Judged
Where Trump stood out starkly from his GOP rivals in 2016 was on his uniquely Trumpian agenda to put America and Americans first. ...
Does the Pope Believe in Hell?
"Pope Declares No Hell?" So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday. ...
Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet?
What is Trump, who assured us there would be no more stupid wars, thinking? Truman and LBJ got us into wars they could not end, and both lost their...
Will the Deep State Break Trump?
The Trump White House is behaving as if it were the prospective target of a coup d'etat. And it is not wrong to think so. ...