American Hero

My thanks to Tom Piatak for pointing out that today is Pat Buchanan's 70th birthday.

Many happy returns of the day to you, sir.

As I wrote in the post that elevated me to Mr. Buchanan's blogroll,

"My personal preference is to disavow ideology, but if pressed on whose banner I would prefer to stand underneath I would describe myself as a Buchananite."

If Barack Obama wins on November 4th, the sun may finally set on America as its loyal citizens and patriots know it; and yet another battle will be lost in the culture war that Pat Buchanan has faithfully and doggedly fought for his nation's survival. An Obama administration will be a long hellish night during which the historic American nation will be degraded even further than under Clinton and Bush; its citizens humiliated and marginalised even more deeply than under Clinton and Bush; its traditions calumnied even more grossly than under Clinton and Bush; its history trashed even more comprehensively than under Clinton and Bush: and its infants aborted like sheep at the slaughterhouse with even greater abandon than under Clinton and Bush.

As Steve Sailer makes clear in his brilliant and brilliantly readable book 'America's Half Blood Prince'(.pdf), Obama is a ruthlessly self-obssessed, racially obsessed twister and 'melancholy aesthete', full of 'Power to the People salutes and Ivy League outcomes'. He is the product of all the best schools to be found wherever he's lived, who idolised his bum of a father and sought to emulate his status as a Kenyan 'Big Man' in the projects of Chicago, using taxpayer funds instead of his own. He has no vision deeper than the colour of his skin, no goal other than his own advancement. He will owe his election to a media which has acted as a partisan propaganda agency, and which has brought shame and dishonour upon the traditions of American investigative journalism. At a time when America most needed an Upton Sinclair or a Bob Woodward in his prime, what it got was a pack of moral cowards; instead of a thousand points of light, it got a thousand little Goebbels.

Obama and the willing executors of his ideology will not seek merely to remove conservatism from the American public square - they will seek to annihilate it, by any means necessary. The conservative movement will soon be the facing the fight of its life. It will survive, but in a form very different to that which it mutated into under the leadership of William F. Buckley, Jr and the American Enterprise Institute. It will be Buchanan's conservatism that will endure, and Buchanan's righteous vision of a righteous nation will be the bedrock upon which a reborn conservative movement will stand and flourish.

If any conservative working man toiling in a Pennsylvania steelmill ever thought Bill Buckley and George W. Bush were his friends, the past eight years will surely have disabused them of that notion. But the one thing that they ever knew about Pat Buchanan was that he was their friend, the only guy whoever said outright that he'd put their interests first - and it is sad that the likely election of Barack Obama will once again prove that one man's disappointment in not achieving office can become his nation's tragedy.