Video: Pat Buchanan’s Inner Franco
Chris Matthews has Paleo Pat Buchanan on his MSNBC show, leading to this exchange (at about 4:35):
Matthews: And that’s why you, Pat Buchanan, although you are a libertarian in many ways, you do not … no, you’re a nationalist actually … you are not what you like to call, derisively, a “democratist.”
Buchanan: No, I don’t believe there’s a great salvation in the political process at all. I believe in different, far different things. I mean I put democracy far down the line, in the … I think a devoutly Christian, conservative, traditionalist country, even if it’s a monarchy, is fine with me.
Matthews: Your Franco is talking, Pat … Franco is speaking even now.
Buchanan: He was better than the alternative.