Pat Buchanan is a figure with whom I do not always agree, but I always appreciate the perspective of history that he brings to his analysis of politics and world affairs. I wish I had his grasp on history.
You need to read the entire column, but I’ll share two brief quotes here:
History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making
the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965.
There he asserts a parallel between LBJ and Obama. Here he states the already evident result of Obama’s miscalculations, which he enumerates in the column:
By misinterpreting his mandate, Obama has accomplished something John McCain could not — unite the Republican Party and instill in it a new esprit de corps. For the Obama budget is an insult to the core belief of the party — that free people, not coercive government, should shape the character of society.
Conservatives, be encouraged. Obama has, by his go-for-broke sprint to consolidate power in the federal government, sharply highlighted the philosophical differences between conservatives and liberals. I look forward to the 2010 mid-term elections.
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