Sublime

McInnes’s edgy personality carried over into politics. In 2003 the New York Times did a story on the Vice brand and put him directly in the crosshairs: “He actually leans much further to the right than the Republican Party. His views are closer to a white supremacist’s. ‘I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of,’ he said.

Despite the last-minute passage of the Social Security bill, liberal antipathy to Johnson was as strong as ever—stronger, in fact: 1956 had, after all, been the year of the natural gas fight and the exemption of highway workers from the David-Bacon Act, and new revelations about Johnson’s relationship with Brown & Root. Under a headline that was an

pro-lifers attempting to paint Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as some sort of proto-Nazi. When she said, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she didn’t mean “We do not want this secret revealed” but rather “We do not want people to get that impression.”

Buchanan had seen that despite Nixon’s liberal agenda—even socialist Bernie Sanders wouldn’t dare advocate the wage and price controls that Nixon had implemented!—the president had still been called a fascist. As a right-winger, a person would similarly be condemned as a “racist” regardless of their actions.