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JANUARY 27, 2022
Meyerson on TAP
Tucker, Pat, and Vladi: Bigots of the World, Unite!
Fox may have turned to neo-czarism, but Pat Buchanan was there first.
Tucker Carlson's musings that the proper U.S. policy is to side with
Russia in the current Eastern European standoff are of a piece with his
swooning over Viktor Orban's drive to create an authoritarian Hungary.
What's news-making is that his current swoon over Vladimir Putin's
manfully standing up to tolerance and democracy has been echoed by the
Taylor Greene-Boebert-Gosar wing of congressional Republicans and
embraced by the ahistoric lunkheads who make up the core Fox viewership.
But Tucker isn't really carving a new trail. In 2013, it was Pat
Buchanan who became the first American opinionist who hailed Putin
for his vilification of homosexuality and other sins against orthodoxy.
Praising Putin for his "moral clarity" and contrasting that with the
louche morality of the ever more "de-Christianized" United States,
Buchanan lamented that too many Americans were "still caught up in a
Cold War paradigm." Instead, he suggested, "the 21st century struggle
may be horizontal, with conservatives and traditionalists in every
country arrayed against the militant secularism of a multicultural and
transnational elite." He applauded a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of India for reinstating an 1861 law that criminalized gay sex and
commended the four dozen (by his count) Muslim nations where "same-sex
marriage is not even on the table."
As I noted in a Washington Post column
on the rise of just such a New Right, Buchanan had come full circle:
When he was a child, his family fervently supported Francisco Franco's
fascists in the Spanish Civil War. "The moral arc of Buchanan's
universe may be long," I wrote, "but it keeps plopping him down in the
company of thugs
."
Noting the rise of a culture-war right in France and elsewhere in
Europe, I pondered the future of the Intolerant International. Those, it
now seems, were the Good Old Days. At least members of Congress and
thousands of Fox viewers weren't avidly applying for membership.
~ HAROLD MEYERSON
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