The key to understanding Buchanan is that he means what he says & is not a troll. Gays are "sodomites," Apartheid was grand, etc.
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When Buchanan says UK & USA shouldn't have fought Hitler, he means it.
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When Buchanan wrote in a memo to Nixon that integration won't work because blacks have low IQ, he meant it. Not a troll. He's serious.
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Klein's position is Buchanan says these horrific things to troll liberals. That does a disservice to Buchanan who is more serious than Klein
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Here's the ending of Klein's piece, where he tells not to take Buchanan's "gleeful excesses" so seriously.pic.twitter.com/jrAjEUseCm
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I agree with Klein that Buchanan deserves serious attention but that also means not white-washing Buchanan's racism, homophobia etd
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Part of what's going on in Klein's review is Beltway Collegiality (Buchanan is by all accounts a charming man) of cable news pundits.
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Beyond beltway collegiality, Klein, like many centrists, doesn't understand ideology, sees fascism as personality defect & not ideas system
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Buchanan has a cluster of largely coherent ideas: white nationalism + tribal Catholicism + extreme gender conservatism.
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Some of Buchanan's ideas are theoretically in conflict. His Catholicism should clash with his racism, but in practice doesn't.
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Buchanan's Catholicism compatible with white nationalism because for him real Catholics are German/Irish Americans he grew up with.
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Historically, the cluster of ideas Buchanan believes in (white nationalism, tribal Catholicism) has affinity for fascism.
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As Buchanan discusses in his memoir, when he grew up Franco was a household God, the hero who saved Spain from communism.
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