Matt Ortega

Pat Buchanan is the fierce warrior of the conservative culture wars seeking to return to that fantastical age of the 1950s. Think I’m kidding? He basically said so himself.

BUCHANAN: It is. It is. But take a look at the unity we had, say, in the 1950s and early 1960s. What have we gone through? You had a culture war that’s divided us completely on matters of morality. You’ve got a wholesale invasion, the greatest invasion in human history, coming across your southern border, changing the composition and character of your country. You’ve got the melting pot that once welded us all together, which has broken down. All of these things are happening, Sean, and, frankly, I don’t think we got the kind of solid, firm, strong national leadership you need to deal with this crisis. [emphasis added]

Unity in the 1950s and 1960s? Undoubtedly one of the most turbulent times in American history since the Civil War? Buchanan was born in 1938. He looks back to his days as a teenager in segregated schools and all that happened after it — the struggle over civil rights and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — and thinks “unity.”

The insanity does not stop there. FOX News commentator Sean Hannity reiterates Buchanan’s argument of a “path of national suicide,” which Buchanan uses to recycle the myth of Mexicans reclaiming the southwest for Mexico.

Media Matters notes this passage from Buchanan’s recently released book, Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, And Greed Are Tearing America Apart:

How is America committing suicide? Every way a nation can.

The American majority is not reproducing itself. Its birthrate has been below replacement level for decades. Forty-five million of its young have been destroyed in the womb since Roe v. Wade, as Asian, African, and Latin American children come to inherit the estate the lost generation of American children never got to see.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 2005 to 2006, our minority population rose 2.4 million to exceed 100 million. Hispanics, 1 percent of the U.S. population in 1950, are now 14.4 percent. Since 2000, their numbers have soured 25 percent to 45 million. The U.S. Asian population grew by 24 percent since 2000, as the number of white kids of school age fell 4 percent. Half the children five and younger today are minority children. (Pages 7-8)

The language is explicit and his intent quite clear. By “American majority,” Buchanan is obviously talking about whites, who are, according to Buchanan, the real Americans. (Whites are, at the national level, the most populous group in the 2000 U.S. Census, comprising over 80% of the national population.)

Buchanan’s equation is quite simple, actually.

More People of Color = America Dying

(Hat tip: Louis Pagan, Latino Pundit)