Lord knows that Romney, upon whom it is urged (pro forma, I think), has no use for it.
Romney is a neoliberal and he intends to do for America what Bain did for all those companies it bought and ran into the ground.
He is among the worst of the vampire capitalists whom Buchanan has characterized as economic traitors to the US, wrecking our economy and using our bloated military to make the world safe for a borderless globo-capitalism too big to fail and way too big for hollowed-out nation states ever to control.
This, for example, is a sample of Romney.
This, for example, is a sample of Romney.
Buchanan is a nationalist relic who was abandoned by his own party and his supposed conservative allies when he was driven out of MSNBC for racism.
Truth to tell, had this been his foreign policy message throughout his career he would never have had one.
Neither Nixon nor (much less) Reagan ever came within a light year of non-interventionism.
Nor did Buchanan, in those days.
And even so Nixon thought him not interventionist enough.
Today he is a voice crying in the wilderness with a three-part nationalist message that interests neither party: an end to high volume immigration, economic protectionism for US producers and jobs, and withdrawal from the militaristic globalism that has driven US foreign policy for decades.
On the right this conflicts with the post-Communist neoliberalism that promises the plutocracy power and wealth on an unprecedented world scale.
On the left it conflicts with a moralistic globalism indistinguishable from the attitude that, in the 70s and 80s, put a liberal imprimatur on the hemorrhage of jobs and factories from high-wage union states in the US North to low-wage, anti-union states in the US South.
His speech will earn Romney points not only with Republicans but with many others.
Generally speaking, you can't go wrong appealing to American national vanity, and talk of "an American Century" will go over big, right along with insisting we have the world's biggest stick and that we live up to the role of "leader of the free world," it being understood that the job also makes us "leader" of all the rest of the world.
He sounds just like Pat Buchanan did, back when Reagan was in the White House.
His speech will earn Romney points not only with Republicans but with many others.
Generally speaking, you can't go wrong appealing to American national vanity, and talk of "an American Century" will go over big, right along with insisting we have the world's biggest stick and that we live up to the role of "leader of the free world," it being understood that the job also makes us "leader" of all the rest of the world.
He sounds just like Pat Buchanan did, back when Reagan was in the White House.
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