Count me out of any of this “Poor Old Pat Buchanan is a Victim” malarkey. The offense is not that MSNBC dumped the vile demagog and hate-monger but that they had kept him on for so long.

Pat Buchanan has been a groin-kicker and racist and anti-semite for generations. It is not his politics. More, he has spewed his hate and violence of the spirit since the 1960s, appealing to the very darkest, gnarled, poisoned souls in this huge nation. He has made a career of it. He was called out as an anti-Semite by no less a luminary than William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley wrote a book about what a bum is Pat Buchanan.

In the moment’s nostalgia for the Mad Men days when all the important people were white and male and Christian and Born here and when the women knew their place and minorities were invisible, a time being harkened to so wistfully by the religious fanatics such as Rick Santorum and the Foxy Catholic Bishops, Buchanan fits in perfectly.

But for the rest of America, a man who oozes his disdain for people of color,  all people of all colors except white, his rage at non-Irish-Catholics daring to aspire to be anything but dirt under conservative feet, the “good old days” were not so very good at all.

Pat Buchanan now laments that his views somehow needed to be aired and debated in public rather than him being dumped by a TV network. Well, he has been airing his views in public for 50 long, polluted years. In broadcast after broadcast, in speech after speech, in book after book, his remarkable spiralling-downward venom has had more than its day.

He has his rights to disengorge his horrid, unAmerican, unChristian views — but he had no special right to be rewarded or to go unchallenged for standing precisely opposite the Messages of the Nazarene and the Founders.

Feel sorry for pat Buchanan? No thanks.