Much of Buchanan’s ugliness in political argument, which shows only sporadically through his intelligence and his sometimes (but not always) predictable strong-conservatism, is easy to understand if one just faces the facts: he has the disease that John Derbyshire once complained about among otherwise competent conservatives — the Jew disease. If he can find an argument, any argument, no matter how absurdly complex or risibly flawed, to justify his deep and fundamental anti-semitism, he raises and embellishes it. It’s a deep thing, and unavoidable, almost a faith. Yes, I know: “some of his best friends are Jews.”