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Pat Buchanan: How long will the vandals run amok?
The left’s war on America’s past crossed several new frontiers last week. Portland’s statue of George Washington, the father of his country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated. In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood...
Pat Buchanan: Will Churchill’s statue be next to fall?
On Gen. George Washington’s orders, the Declaration of Independence, signed in Philadelphia, was read aloud to his army. On hearing it, the troops marched to Bowling Green, decapitated and pulled down the statue of George III, and sent the remnants to be melted down into musket balls. It was a...
Pat Buchanan: Liberal mush from the Mad Dog
In his statement to The Atlantic magazine, former Defense Secretary James Mattis says of the events of the last weeks that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968: “We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.” Is “a small number of lawbreakers”...
Pat Buchanan: China’s leader takes up the U.S. challenge
Is the United States up for a second Cold War — this time with China? What makes the question newly relevant is Xi Jinping’s China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world. With the United States consumed by...
Pat Buchanan: What does winning mean in a forever war?
When a Wall Street Journal editorial warned last week against any precipitous U.S. withdrawal that might imperil our gains in Afghanistan, an exasperated President Trump shot back: “Could someone please explain to them that we have been there for 19 years. … and except at the beginning, we never really...
Pat Buchanan: Will Americans submit to a second lockdown?
On March 24, President Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic. Yet, with Ascension Thursday at hand, 40 days after Easter, the president seems to have...
Pat Buchanan: Coexistence with China or Cold War II?
Under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump, his campaign and his party are moving to lay blame for the 80,000 U.S. dead at the feet of the Communist Party of China and, by extension, its longtime general secretary, President Xi Jinping. There is talk on Capitol...
Pat Buchanan: Will Depression II dictate Trump’s fate?
The coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 70,000 Americans and induced the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. And if history is our guide, the economic crisis, which has produced 30 million unemployed Americans in six weeks, may prove more enduring, ruinous and historic than the still-rising and tragic death...
Pat Buchanan: The one certain victor in pandemic war
“War is the health of the state,” wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during World War I, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu. America’s war on the coronavirus pandemic promises to be no exception to the axiom. However long this war requires, the gargantuan state will almost surely emerge...
Pat Buchanan: What price victory in the coronavirus war?
T he same day the number of U.S. dead from the coronavirus disease hit the 15,000 mark, we also crossed the 15 million mark on the number of Americans we threw out of work to slow its spread and “bend the curve.” For each American lost to the pandemic, 1,000...


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