The GOP Is Pat Buchanan’s Party Now
Politics tamfitronics J.D. Vance’s RNC speech signified a return to the blood-and-soil politics at the core of Buchanan’s failed presidential runs in the 1990s. Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan campaigns in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1995. (Eric Draper / AP Photo) Lionel Trilling’s description of American conservatism as an assortment of “irritable mental gestures” has long […]