Abstract

A Potent Trinity-God, Country & Me

This article presents presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan's political career and his views against immigrants, welfare recipients, and homosexuals. Buchanan is the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race so far. It was in New Hampshire that Buchanan's economic populism first stirred. When he campaigned in the state in 1992, he encountered people socked by recession. Buchanan had been propelled into that race by his far-right disgust at U.S. President George Bush's decision to sign a civil rights measure and to renege on the read-my-lips declaration. He is the only Republican contender to acknowledge and address the decline in real wages that has hit middle-income America. In doing so, Buchanan adds fresh troops to the social conservatives in his "Buchanan Brigades." INSET: Deadbeat Pat?..