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Right-wing Presidential Contender Can’t be Ignored

Kevin J. Kelley writes from Washington
Patrick Buchanan, vying to replace United States President George Bush as representative of the Republican Party, has been called a racist and anti-Semite for his far-right views. But his popular appeal means he cannot be dismissed lightly. A surprisingly large number of people may vote for him in protest over Bush 's economic policies.
AS the pretkkntfal «tec-
Hiclana and foreign polfrv KfHt-lalislii in Oh- United Sour, ■re actively debating what rule Washington should play in the post-Cold War world.
Many visions are being put forth, but one in particular •land* out far Ma clarity, and the vivid rhetoric used to describe it.
"Put America First." de claree Republican presidential contender Patrick Buchanan, and let the real of the world lend for itself.
Such isolationist sentiment is considered anathema within the US political establishment Buchanan is not given much chance of surviving as a chai lender Io George Bush after the Initial round of Republican gresldeytial primaries in lute
Nevertheless, it is bciixn Ing clear that Buchanan's me* sage has considerable gruss roots appeal.
Public opinion polls show many voters agree with his ba sic programme: focus attention and resources on problems at home, withdraw from foreign entanglements, and forcefully assert US Interests in trade negotiations, even al the risk ol retaliation from Japan and the European Community.
While Buchanan's Ideas arc regularly denounced os being far outside the political main stream, they actually fall within a long-standing US tradition of right-wing populism.
The ideology of this 53-year-old newspaper columnist and television commentator bears many similarities io the xenophobia of the 19th Century nulivist movements, which opposed Irish. Italian and eastern European Imml gration to the US.
Buchanan's foreign policy views are likewise rooted In the "America First" crusade of the Thirties, when people like famed aviator Charles Lind bergh urged that the US not become involved in the fight against Nazism.
Indeed. Buchanan notes In his 1988 autobiography. Right from the Beginning, that his father's sympathies "had been with the isolationists, with Charles Lindbergh and the
America First Committee.'
Other household heroes included Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and the fiercely anil communist US senator Joseph McCarthy
in addition to an uncompromising brand of conser vaflsm Buchanan inherited from his father a devotion to Jesuit style Roman Catholism and a ptignat hum disposition.
During his student days at Washington's Georgetown University, the young Bur Ionian wav arrested for assault tn two police officers who liad stopped him for a traffic, violation.
This characteristic combat tveness was channelled into veriad form during Buchanan s leiiurr us u spreehwrili r for l*re*Kient Ricliard Non
He later served as commu-nitationa director in the Reagan White House, where he was credited with fashioning that administrations confrontational rhetoric, aimed both at Ills nils al home and at radu ,i| nationalists In the Third World.
Over several years Buchanan has emerged as oik nf the country's best-known political pundits. His colourfully-expressed opinions were carried In more than 400 newspapers, and he often appeared on nationwide TV talk shows.
Buchanan has acquired celebrity status — and made himself a millionaire — mainly by convincing audiences that he takes his Ideas very seri ously Having come close to running for president In 1988, Buchanan decided this time to take leave from writing and dedicate himself totally to -reasserting the Reaganlte gospel
As Buchanan secs It. Bush has strayed from the one true conservative path. The President, never fully trusted by right-wing ideologues, of fended many by abandoning his 'No New Taxes* pledge last year as part of a deal with Democrats in Congress. Buchanan contends that marked a betrayal of fundamental Reaganlte principles
He finds much less support on the right for his criticisms ol Bush s global outlook. In fact, some of Buchanan's former colleagues in I he media maintain that It la he — not Hush - who has repudiated Reagan's foreign policy of Intervention on behalf of US economic and strategic objectives
A significant number of । onservative* refuse to support Bu-Italian In particular be caii'i of his opposition i ilie I S l1 military campaign ■ ■e iliisl Iraq
With ivmmuiilsin dcfcalcd. Buchanan reasons, the US no
iongrr has any reason U send troops to Third World hot spots. That position is considered dangerously short-sighted by fnany Republicans, some of
Wined at Buchanan because of his argument against Hush » decision to go to war In the Gut
The country was being drawn Into unnecessary conflict. Buchanan said early in 1991. mainly al the institution of Israel and Its "amen corner" in the US.
That comment, whieh clearly referred to Jewish-Amerlcan lobbyists re ignited controversy over Buchanan’s alleged anil scmitlsm
During his career as a columnist. Buchanan came to the defence of an accused Nazi war criminal. Instating that the US resident had been set up by the Soviet Intelligence agency He also questioned whether the generally accepted history of the Holocaust la correct in certain key respects
African Americans and homosexuals have also been the targets of remarks by Buchanan that many consider Insensitive, al best Charge* that he Is a racist have been given new credence as a result of some of Buchanan's recent utterances.
Soon after he announced his candidacy for president in mid-December Buchanan responded to an Interviewer's question about Immigration pohcicB by declaring: "I think
tnumgrants — soy. Zulus — nesl year, or Englishmen, and pul them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"
Ironically, the governor of that southern stale Is an African-Am rican
And in an Interview In January with Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Buch anon asserted: "Hie US sltould
stand up for values shared value*
Why are we more sIkx k d when a dozen people are killed in (the Lithuanian capital) Vilnius than a massacre In Burundi? Because they are white people. That’s who we are That* where America
Buchanan » nationalist advocacy does extend somewhat beyond white people in the United Slates He favours ere alien of a Palestinian state for example, and has also suggested tn his column ttal Quebec be allowed to secede from Canada The anglophone provinces of Canada could then be merged with the UN to create a North American super-nation.
At the same time. Iiowever. Buchanan is not eager to sec the US conclude a free trade agreement with Mexico, a country much poorer — and En^fah^piakfogC^d,!
Because of views like these Buchanan Is generally thought to pose little threat to Busis renominallon as the Repu bbcan Party's standard bearer
Bui Buchanan is managing, nevertheless, to position himself as the only viable Insurgent lo the right of Bush.
His competitor for that role - former Klu Wux Klan leader David Duke - will proboHy be unable to overcome a rep"U» Don as an eMlremtw. especially since Buchanan takes many M the same positions, and puls them In more fespctable p-kagmg
The key teat of Buchanan s appeal will come soon. Unless he wins more than one fifth of the Republican vote In the nation * first primary election, on February 18 In New Hamp •hire, the Buchanan challenge will almost certainly come to an early end
Tlw deep recession in that New England state has angered many voters, however and a surprisingly large num tier muy decide lo protest over Bush's economic pwflctcs by casting a ballot for Patrick Buclianan — GEMINI NEWS
KEVIN J. KELLEY Is an Anwrk rin J'rrlmr Journalist, aixt editor of the Toward Freedom Journal