Breakup of the West?
The European half of Trump's trip should be taken as a fire-bell-in-the-night warning: Shape up, Europe, or you may find yourselves on your own when it comes to the...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
Posts by Patrick J. Buchanan
After the Confederates, Who’s Next?
Today, the men we were taught to revere as the great captains, explorers, missionaries and nation-builders are seen by many as part of a racist, imperialist, genocidal enterprise, wicked...
Rosenstein Joins the Posse
A debilitating and potentially dangerous time for President Trump has now begun, courtesy of his deputy attorney general. ...
Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre
Where Nixon decapitated his Justice Department and shut down the special prosecutor's office, Trump simply fired an FBI director who agreed that Trump had every right to do so....
What Is America’s Goal in the World?
We have lost control of our destiny. We have lost the freedom our Founding Fathers implored us to maintain — the freedom to stay out of wars of foreign counties...
Nixon and Trump, Then and Now
In many ways, the two men could not have been more different. Yet the "mess" Trump inherited bears striking similarities to Nixon's world in 1969. ...
How Berkeley Birthed the Right
In 1966, Ronald Reagan would beat Berkeley like a drum in his run for governor, calling the campus, "a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters and sex deviants." ...
Nixon’s Revenge: The Fall of the Adversary Press
Saturday's White House Correspondents Association dinner exposed anew how far from Middle America our elite media reside. ...
The Rise of the Generals
Has President Donald Trump outsourced foreign policy to the generals? So it would seem. ...
Is Macron the EU’s Last Best Hope?
For the French establishment, Sunday's presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a "damn near-run thing." ...
Is Democracy in a Death Spiral?
When George W. Bush declared that the peoples of the Middle East should decide their future in democratic elections, Lebanon chose Hezbollah, the Palestinians chose Hamas, the Egyptians the...
War Cries Drown Out “America First”
The promise of a Trump presidency — that we would start looking out for our own country and own national interests first and let the rest of the world...
Will Christianity Perish in Its Birthplace?
Truth be told, it is in part because of us that Christianity is on its way to being exterminated in its cradle. ...
Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?
By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our "America First" president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not...
Nixon, LBJ and the First Shots in the Judges’ War
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court — a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard...
Why Is Kim Jong Un Our Problem?
"If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will." So President Donald Trump warns, amid reports North Korea, in its zeal to build an intercontinental ballistic missile...
The Ryancare Rout — Winning by Losing?
Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that. ...
The Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump
Two days after FBI Director James Comey assured us there was no truth to President Trump's tweet about being wiretapped by Barack Obama, the chairman of the House Intelligence...
Will Russiagate Backfire on the Left?
The big losers of the Russian hacking scandal may yet be those who invested all their capital in a script that turned out to based on a fairy tale....
Is McCain Hijacking Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Has President Trump given McCain, who wanted President Bush to intervene in a Russia-Georgia war — over South Ossetia! — carte blanche to hand out war guarantees to unstable Balkan states?...