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| | [[File:Pat Buchanan.JPG|thumb|250px|Buchanan in 2008.]] | | [[File:Pat Buchanan.JPG|thumb|250px|Buchanan in 2008.]] |
| | '''Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan''' is a noted [[paleoconservative]] commentator, author, and three-time candidate for [[President of the United States]]. He was employed as a commentator at [[MSNBC]] until he was permanently suspended from there in February 2012, after which he became a commentator at [[Fox News]]. He was one of the first to identify the threats caused by the declining population and exploding immigrant populations in Europe.<ref>Buchanan, Patrick J., The Death of the West, How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002).</ref> | | '''Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan''' is a noted [[paleoconservative]] commentator, author, and three-time candidate for [[President of the United States]]. He was employed as a commentator at [[MSNBC]] until he was permanently suspended from there in February 2012, after which he became a commentator at [[Fox News]]. He was one of the first to identify the threats caused by the declining population and exploding immigrant populations in Europe.<ref>Buchanan, Patrick J., The Death of the West, How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002).</ref> |
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| − | Buchanan is a supporter of [[Russia]]´s president [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>http://buchanan.org/blog/putin-one-us-6071</ref>
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| | ==Background== | | ==Background== |
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| | ==Later life== | | ==Later life== |
| | Buchanan supported the successful presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]], who ran on the same views that Buchanan had run on 20 years earlier.<ref name="Alberta">Alberta, Tim (2017). [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/22/pat-buchanan-trump-president-history-profile-215042 ‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’]. ''Politico Magazine'' (May/June 2017 edition). Retrieved April 22, 2017.</ref> Despite being advanced in age, Buchanan continued to be very mentally competent.<ref name="Alberta"/> | | Buchanan supported the successful presidential campaign of [[Donald Trump]], who ran on the same views that Buchanan had run on 20 years earlier.<ref name="Alberta">Alberta, Tim (2017). [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/22/pat-buchanan-trump-president-history-profile-215042 ‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’]. ''Politico Magazine'' (May/June 2017 edition). Retrieved April 22, 2017.</ref> Despite being advanced in age, Buchanan continued to be very mentally competent.<ref name="Alberta"/> |
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| | + | ==Political Positions== |
| | + | Since the end of the [[Cold War]], Pat Buchanan has been largely identified with the [[paleoconservative]] wing of the conservative movement. As such he is an opponent of [[free trade]], a critic of mass [[immigration]], and a critic of foreign policy interventionism such as the [[Iraq War]], positions which put him at odds with the [[neoconservative]]s. |
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| | + | Buchanan is a supporter of [[Russia]]´s president [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>http://buchanan.org/blog/putin-one-us-6071</ref> |
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| | ==Author== | | ==Author== |
| − | Since the end of the [[Cold War]], Pat Buchanan has been largely identified with the [[paleoconservative]] wing of the conservative movement. As such he is an opponent of [[free trade]], a critic of mass [[immigration]], and a critic of foreign policy interventionism such as the [[Iraq War]], positions which put him at odds with the [[neoconservative]]s. He has written several books on these and other topics:
| + | Pat Buchanan has written several books on several topics: |
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| | * ''The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-Passage (Girard Essays), 1973 | | * ''The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-Passage (Girard Essays), 1973 |