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Does Levy realize that just about everyone on the Left prefers Buchanan to any of the Neocons? The irony is that the American populist movement transcends political parties. Is Buchanan wrong to suggest that some countries are not developed enough intellectually to have a participatory Democracy? The new left, and their anti-war stance on Iraq is based on a workable political solution, which requires a very different sort of Democracy from the winner take all politics of George Bush, who overthrew Hussein, a strong central ruler, and attempted to replace his dictatorship with a strong central government, which even now is crumbling.
Buchanan directed his party for years, running in the primaries to shape policy, only to see the Neocons throw every decent thing the Republicans stood for out in the street. At least Clinton was charming, and effective, when he moved to the middle. Does Mrs. Clinton really have any room to drift farther in that direction? Mr. Levy should consider the idealism of the far left in America, who are challenging the established leadership of the Democratic party.
