Accordingly, publications like the New Republic [TNR Exclusive, December 23, 2011] and Weekly Standard have trained their guns on Paul. Although Paul avoids racial issues, and has completely abandoned even the pretense of supporting patriotic immigration reform, the most favored attack on Paul is to accuse him of “racism” for 20 year-old newsletters (which he claims he didn’t write, or approve) published under his name that included blunt language about Martin Luther King, interracial crime, post-Apartheid South Africa etc. Thus, we have the likes of National Review Editor Rich Lowry calling Paul’s letters “rancid and bigoted,” (NR editor: Paul has ‘sullied’ libertarianism’ with ‘bigots’ and ‘conspiracy kooks’ [VIDEO], December 22, 2011). And the Left, always happy to call a Republican a racist, has joined in: hence we have Al Sharpton saying the newsletters have “racist and bigoted rhetoric.”
A foreign policy non-interventionist surging in the polls—leading neoconservative hacks and professional race hustlers crying “racism”—all this naturally brings back fond memories of Pat Buchanan’s 1996 Presidential campaign.
Like Paul, much of Buchanan’s support also came from non-interventionists and the predecessors of the Tea Party. However, in addition, Buchanan rallied the large traditional Republican constituency of social conservatives—who in themselves probably are a bigger group than all of Paul’s supporters combined. (Significantly, these are the very people who, instead of putting Paul over the top, seem to be fuelling a last-minute surge by the extremely disappointing Rick Santorum.) And what really scared the Establishment: Buchanan’s combination of economic nationalism combined with strong opposition to mass immigration and Political Correctness showed signs of winning over working class whites and forging a real patriotic majority in America.
In addition to not threatening the Establishment politically, Ron Paul does not truly threaten the Establishment on an ideological level. Foreign policy may be an important issue, but its most sacred cow is mass immigration and multiculturalism—the election of a new people and the Latin Americanization (or Mexicanization) of America. Pat Buchanan has been the most prominent opponent of both—before, during, and after his presidential campaigns. While Ron Paul is now running away from any suggestion that he may have thought the LA riots revealed problems with black crime, Pat Buchanan famously used his platform at the 1992 Republican Convention to speak out against the mob rule.
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