How is it, why is it, that Patrick Buchanan is such an excellent analyst of foreign policy, and yet an abject ignoramus when it comes to tariffs, free trade, protectionism? In a series of really excellent essays on U.S. interventionism, he sounds almost like Ron Paul or Murray Rothbard, to say nothing of the Founding Fathers, who counseled against going abroad to slay dragons or engage in entangling alliances. For example, this one, which appears on LewRockwell.com this very day (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/12/patrick-j-buchanan/lessons-trump/). Here Pat tries to convince Donald to keep the U.S. military out of the Middle East in general, and … Continue reading Pat Buchanan: Devil or Angel? A Bit of Both