Is a New GOP Being Born? by Patrick J. Buchanan
The first four Republican contests -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- produced record turnouts.
Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan
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March 1, 2016
February 26, 2016
Hillary vs. The Donald by Patrick J. Buchanan
In a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump race -- which, the Beltway keening aside, seems the probable outcome of the primaries -- what are the odds the GOP can take the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court?
February 23, 2016
Nationalism and Populism Propel Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary.
Political analysts pointed out repeatedly that if all of the votes for Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson were added up, they far exceeded the Trump vote.
February 19, 2016
Trump Is Right on Trade By Pat Buchanan
Republican hawks are aflutter today over China's installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea.
February 16, 2016
Leave the Scalia Chair Vacant by Pat Buchanan
It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him.
February 12, 2016
How Republics Perish by Pat Buchanan
If you believed America's longest war, in Afghanistan, was coming to an end, be advised: It is not.
February 10, 2016
Bloomberg vs. Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The morning of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump, being interviewed on "Morning Joe," said that he would welcome his "friend" Michael Bloomberg into the presidential race.
Which is probably the understatement of 2016.
February 5, 2016
The Remainderman by Pat Buchanan
Donald Trump won more votes in the Iowa caucuses than any Republican candidate in history.
February 2, 2016
Is a New Era Upon Us? by Pat Buchanan
Whoever wins the nominations, the most successful campaigns of 2016 provide us with a clear picture of where the center of gravity is today in both parties and, hence, where America is going.
January 29, 2016
The Civil War of the Right By Pat Buchanan
The conservative movement is starting to look a lot like Syria.
Baited, taunted, mocked by Fox News, Donald Trump told Roger Ailes what he could do with his Iowa debate, and marched off to host a Thursday night rally for veterans at the same time in Des Moines.
January 26, 2016
The Rejection Election By Pat Buchanan
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump.
January 22, 2016
Is the Spectre of Trump Haunting Davos? by Pat Buchanan
The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.
January 19, 2016
Is Iran Taking the China Road? By Pat Buchanan
Is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, a RINO -- a revolutionary in name only?
January 15, 2016
US, Iran Step Back From the Brink By Pat Buchanan
To awaken Thursday to front-page photos of U.S. sailors kneeling on the deck of their patrol boat, hands on their heads in postures of surrender, on Iran's Farsi Island, brought back old and bad memories.
January 12, 2016
What Bernie & The Donald Portend by Pat Buchanan
Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and clarity emerges.
January 8, 2016
Why Is North Korea Our Problem? By Patrick J. Buchanan
For Xi Jinping, it has been a rough week.
Panicked flight from China's currency twice caused a plunge of 7 percent in her stock market, forcing a suspension of trading.
January 5, 2016
Will Mideast Allies Drag Us Into War? By Pat Buchanan
The New Year's execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation.
January 1, 2016
Winners & Losers: 2015 By Pat Buchanan
Each year, "The McLaughlin Group," the longest-running panel show on national TV, which began in 1982, announces its awards for the winners and losers and the best and the worst of the year.
Rereading my list of 39 awardees suggests something about how our world is changing.
December 29, 2015
Is the West Disintegrating? by Pat Buchanan
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, "Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent," contained this pessimistic prognosis:
December 22, 2015
Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict? By Pat Buchanan
"I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here ... and ... around the world, that there is a 'clash of civilizations.'"
