No, it’s SPECIFIC prominent racist republicans.

Mexico is the greatest foreign policy crisis I think America faces in the next 20, 30 years. Who is going to care, Andrea, 30 years from now whether a Sunni or a Shia is in Baghdad or who’s ruling in Kabul?

Whole cities in Mexico are on the verge of collapsing into chaos and anarchy thanks to the drug gangs — cities that are right on the US border. The Mexican government itself is imperiled. Phoenix, AZ is the #2 city in the world for kidnappings, and officials blame Mexican drug gangs. The drug gangs are starting to use military-grade ordnance, on both sides of the border. It IS a major crisis, and it very well could play out over decades. Buchanan is absolutely right on that point.

And then comes the patented Buchanan swerve into demagoguery and racism and xenophobia:

We’re going to have 135 million Hispanics in the United States by 2050, heavily concentrated in the southwest. The question is whether we’re going to survive as a country.

Same ol’ Pat. Same ol’ asshole.

He was born too late. He’d have made a wonderful leader in the German-American Bund.

J.

I thought the topic was prominent racist Republican assholes.

You apparently think the topic is “Jay Tea: Mensch Amongst Mensches.”

And the context of my citing Buckley was when the National Review finally decided to throw Buchanan under the bus — a move long, long overdue when they finally did it. It was a brilliant piece of analysis of Buchanan, crystallizing precisely why I had loathed him for so many years without being able to quite put it into words.

J.

“The central question that emerges … is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists.”

and

“saying that promiscuous homosexuals with AIDS should be tattooed on the buttocks as a sort of health-warning”

It’s a brilliant tactic — he has deniability for not QUITE crossing his line, while his supporters can say “yeah, he’s really with us, he just can’t QUITE say what he really thinks without getting put down by the Jews/Commies/Neocons/foreigners/whatever.”

I got wise to that back in 1992, when I discussed his campaign with a few of his supporters — and it ended with them kindly offering to throw me through a plate glass window in response to some very uncomfortable questions and observations I made.

J.

But Pat is so in thrall to the Old-Time Nixon-Reagan Religion, his brain is full of holes.

Indeed. Your (and I mean your) modern Republican party. Charming as ever.

He’s got the racist, razor-blade-yak-shit crazy thing down pat already.

He so desperately needs to go away.

J.