What do you know? He's not dead.

Pat Buchanan.

Today's column is a celebration of the Buchananite takeover of the GOP in the person of the Duce, Donald Trump.

For him, in utter delirium, Buchanan even abandons his decades of anti-Israeli sentiment and propaganda and celebrates Trump's Zionism.

Not entirely happy with the Duce's current hostility toward China regarding Hong Kong, however.

He doesn't see it part of the virus-connected shift for the election year.

He's very please with all the stuff about NATO and Putin and trade and Iran and global warming and and and.

And race.

A Most Consequential Presidency

A reminder of Pat's preference for authoritarian populism over rule of law republicanism and popular government.

A preference that emerged only when the rise of the Duce emboldened Buchanan.

Mandatory voting

If participation dropped so far as to significantly undermine the claim of government to rest on popular will I would favor mandatory voting, if it allowed casting ballots only partially filled out, or even not at all.

Are we already there?

Maybe, thanks only in part to the efforts of one party to discourage and diminish participation on a scale big enough to matter.

Guess which party would rather see blood run in the streets than see a smoothly functioning system of mandatory voting and overwhelming participation.