It’s a reflection of the Paleocon impulse. He started at The American Conservative, which I used to religiously follow. Many of the authors there circa 2000s when he was an editor would drop these vague threats of switching to the Democrats because they were upset the Republicans would never give them what they want. It’s part of an older playbook. Buchanan even has a history of saying things like he has more in common with Nader than most Republicans.

My reading of the last week in particular is he’s gone from trying to maybe implement that idea, like a reborn Buchanan finally trying it, to just being lost. 2016, he had a dubious but energetic playbook. The Spencer 15 minutes of fame are over this year and so we’re getting a spew of nonsense about Trump shadow governments and base Biden and plain old trolling.