Remember the young black woman who got repeatedly shoved at a Trump rally in Louisville? (Don't worry, she got away, shaken but unharmed.) Well, here's a profile of the guy who did a lot of the shoving. And the yelling.
If you don't feel like reading the whole thing — and we don't blame you — we'll sum it up: Matthew Heimbach is a white nationalist who thinks the Holocaust is fiction, apartheid was swell, and lynching is a great way to solve the Negro problem. And of course, he's supporting Donald Trump.
But we're not just here to blast Heimbach or the fact that Trump never feels compelled to repudiate losers like him. We're here to ask the cable news networks: Why do you ever have Pat Buchanan on as a talking head?
See, Heimbach was apparently normal until he read Buchanan's Death of the West, an anti-immigrant screed that rings warning bells against the incoming hordes of color. It's crap, of course, and just the latest example of how Buchanan has been poisoning political discourse for more than 40 years. (His biggest contribution was probably his "culture war" speech at the 1992 Republican convention, which, as Molly Ivins quipped, "probably sounded better in the original German" and which helped sink the GOP's electoral hopes that year.)
But just the other day we turned on cable news and found Pat ruminating on the Republican race. With anchors treating him as if he were a serious thinker and not a hater.
Pat Buchanan is a racist, homophobe, anti-Semite, misogynist, and more, but he cloaks himself with Washington respectability instead of a white sheet. And Washington — at least, the Beltway media — allows him to do it. It makes us cats sick, and and it makes us HISS.
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