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Doesn't really matter, for William F. Buckley effectively read Pat Buchanan out of movement conservatism in December 1991 with his "In Search of Antisemitism" essay. One of the things that prompted me to drop my subscription to National Review.

Per Wikipedia and my memory of contemporaneously reading the essay:

"In December 1991, a 40,000-word article by William F. Buckley Jr. was published in the National Review discussing antisemitism among conservative commentators focused largely on Buchanan; the article and many responses to it were collected in the book In Search of Anti-Semitism (1992). He wrote: 'I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism', but concluded: 'If you ask, do I think Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite, my answer is he is not one. But I think he's said some anti-Semitic things.'"

Buckley and his journal did at least as much damage as good, reading everyone out of the movement step by step until it's now pro-gay marriage, Never Trump, wants Rustbelt America to literally die, etc. etc.