A reader writes:
The essence of Buchanan’s fantasy might appear in two words he so breezily flings into a laundry list of alleged societal woes: “rising crime.” After two decades of across-the-board falling crime in the country, these white Americans invariably spot “rising crime.” Count among them my own white mother, who would adore the Buchanan column and who always thinks crime rising to the point of disbelief in official statistics. When I think about it, it might be the essence of this illusory mindset.
The Dish 