Re: "...Buchanan realized all of this over a decade ago and people didn't listen to him..."
Buchanan also, over a decade ago, was paid to write speeches for the Republicans in power.
Seems Pat had no quarrel with unconstitutional government as long as it was willing to provide him lots of money, prestige, TV shows, and syndicated editorial columns.
For his last presidential bid, he hired Hal Turner Nazi #1 for his campaign manager, and chose a Marxist-Internationalist [censored] for his running mate.
All three shared one thing in common: They hate Jews.
The sad fact is that the U.S. has not had a Constitutional Government since Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln chose to disregard the Constitutional Right to Secession, go to war rather than allow states their legal sovereign rights, and for all practical purposes trampled the Constitution, establishing in its stead an illegal and dictatorial central government of massive proportions.
It is rare today to find someone giving lip service to "Constitutional strict constructionism", who has ever actually read the Constitution.
Buchanan has certainly read the document, certainly understands its clear delineations of Federal Rights vs States Rights, is highly educated and almost always correct on his "cultural vision of America", but somehow always lets his guard down just enough to reveal the true nature of his character.