Opinion of Pat Buchanan

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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How does the fact that Pat Buchanan is a fan of Hitler factor into that?

Believing that half a million Americans and a million western Europeans should not have died in a war for Poland's territorial integrity does not a Nazi make.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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How does the fact that Pat Buchanan is a fan of Hitler factor into that?

Believing that half a million Americans and a million western Europeans should not have died in a war for Poland's territorial integrity does not a Nazi make.

Oh my god did you really just post this.

Yes, that is Buchanan's position which, according to some, makes him a swastika-waving Hitler fan.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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How does the fact that Pat Buchanan is a fan of Hitler factor into that?

Believing that half a million Americans and a million western Europeans should not have died in a war for Poland's territorial integrity does not a Nazi make.

I don't understand: he believes aiding the USSR on the Eastern Front was a poor idea, the USA only should have aided UK/France on the Western Front?

Buchanan's take on it is that the British guarantee to Poland should never have been made because it was unenforceable and contrary to British interests. Without the guarantee, the Poles would have been forced to the table and there would have been no war between Germany and the western European powers. He believes that once at war, Britain should have accepted Hitler's 1939 and 1940 peace offers when the German conquest of Poland was a fait-accompli and that the Nazi and Soviet regimes might have crumbled without western intervention if they had been left to fight a protracted war between themselves.

He wrote a whole book on the subject. Even if you disagree with some or all of it, I think it's a pretty interesting read.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

The greatest man never to have been President, regardless of the skeletons in his closet.

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How does the fact that Pat Buchanan is a fan of Hitler factor into that?

Believing that half a million Americans and a million western Europeans should not have died in a war for Poland's territorial integrity does not a Nazi make.

Excuse me, my friend, but what the f**k this is I don't even.

You didn't have to be a communist to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.