The Culture War - Tim Pool - Pat Buchanan To Receive MEDAL OF FREEDOM? ft. Rep. Riley Moore

Aug. 27, 2025 - The Culture War - Tim Pool

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Pat Buchanan To Receive MEDAL OF FREEDOM? ft. Rep. Riley Moore

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riley moore ▲ ● ▼		The very simple, just common sense things that used to be just kind of cultural norms, like maybe we don't want riots and violence in our cities.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		And it's like, well, it's a little more complicated than that.
unidentified		It's like, no, actually it's not.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		And instead of just like talking around these issues and, you know, why these violent acts are happening and, you know, kind of origin stories and things, no more.
		No, we're not doing that anymore.
		Enough.
		No more.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Hey, everyone.
		This is Tate Brown here holding it down for Tim Poole.
		We have an interview here with Riley Moore.
		About halfway through, we had some technical difficulties, but we got it stitched together for you.
		So enjoy.
		Rep Moore urges Trump to present presidential medal of freedom to Pat Buchanan.
		Here's a direct quote from him.
		For more than half of a century, Mr. Buchanan stood boldly for the American worker, the American family, and the American nation at times when it was neither popular nor politically expedient.
		That's the quote Moore wrote in his letter.
		His clear-eyed warnings about porous borders, deindustrialization, foreign tanglements, and the decline of traditional values were once dismissed by elites, but have been proven exactly right.
		And that is true.
		Riley Moore, obviously, this was fantastic from him.
		And we love to see it.
		And so, yeah, we're going going to ask him about the about his letter urging Trump to honor Pat Buchanan.
		Let's see if we can get him in here.
		Hi, Congressman, can you hear me?
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I can hear you.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		How are we doing today?
unidentified		Good.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		How are you?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Doing all right.
		I'm sure most of the viewers are quite familiar with you.
		Maybe you could just give a quick intro for those who aren't.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, sure.
		Hey, I'm Riley Moore, Congressman, Second Congressional District, out in the great state of West Virginia, actually not too far from the studio typically.
		But yeah, you probably seen me on IRL quite a bit.
		I haven't been on in a little while.
		Also world famous for my kickflip on the flat bank.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I love it.
		That's good stuff.
		Well, I mean, obviously we have a lot to get into.
		First, I just wanted to start.
		I mean, I'm sure you've saw the news.
		I saw your statement on it with the situation in Minneapolis.
		I wonder if you just had any sort of general thoughts on the shooting.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, it's an absolute tragedy.
		I mean, and it's heartbreaking.
		You know, I don't They go walk down the street.
		We've seen Christian institutions in this country consistently under attack.
		And we're going to find out who this is.
		I'm not going to sit here and guess who it is.
		But it's more about, I think, an attack on just the culture of this country and trying to just rip it apart.
		It feels like, at least to me.
		And so certainly it feels, you know, I can feel this pretty viscerally given that I have kids and where they go to school.
		So it's just absolute tragedy.
		It's heartbreaking.
		Absolutely heartbreaking.
		And we were killed and sitting in their pews.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Right.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		They're at the Catholic Church.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Just absolutely evil.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		No, yeah, it's absolutely horrible.
		I mean, and it really just hits at this theme where America is just really starting to feel unstable and more violent and...
		certainly among among the christian community we're sensing this um i mean you touched on it i'm i'm sure you're sensing the same thing is just this country really is starting to feel um Like there's a lot of people with nothing to lose and it's starting to feel very unstable.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		No, that's exactly right.
		And, you know, flashback to that school that was attacked, if I remember correctly, Nashville, Tennessee, a conversation school that was attacked by some trans terrorist over there that shot it up.
		Yes, I mean, it's.
		And now this is happening again.
		And luckily, though, we do have President Trump in the White House where we can actually have these conversations about what in the hell is going on here and hopefully start to get to the bottom of it and prevent these things from ever happening again.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Yeah.
		I mean, you know, I hate doing the dance because this happens after every shooting where the left and right both propose sort of these surface.
		Obviously, the left just wants to grab guns.
		You know, we know their playbook.
		But even on the right, you know, you get this dance for like, well, maybe it's the video games.
		Maybe it's this, that, and the other.
		But it really feels like whatever solution is just putting kind of a band-aid on the situation.
		It feels like the underlying issue is that you just have a high proportion of this country that just has no, they have a void in their soul, right?
		They just feel empty inside.
		And that seems incredibly alarming.
		I mean, I don't know what sort of, what sort of direction do we need to go in as a country to ensure that we don't have people like this that are, you know, that seem to be everywhere.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah.
		And part of that's going to be guided by who is this.
		Now we knew who the last one was.
		It was this trans terrorist individual.
		And look, there's a lot of mental health issues in this country.
		And in terms of mental health issues and saying, no, there's nothing wrong with you.
		Don't worry about it.
		And then they act out in violent ways.
		And as you said, look, just have kind of a voice.
		void and that they're trying to fill or blame on somebody else or some community or some religious institution or what have you.
		And it's costing people their lives.
		So I think part of it is we just need to really be honest about what is going on in this country and who is doing it and how we can actually stop it and not kind of the window dressing of, you know, let's not hurt people's feelings about this.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Sure, absolutely.
		I mean, and.
		You know, it kind of goes with it as the Trump administration does seem to have a little bit of a different view.
		I mean, I think they're quite aware of how violent this country appears to be getting and how unstable it's been getting, obviously, over the last few decades.
		Certainly his approach to DC indicates.
		a different sort of mindset when handling these issues.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		No, absolutely.
		And I think the way you could kind of encapsulate that is in a very simple phrase of enough is enough.
		No more.
		No more.
		Enough.
		We've had enough of this.
		And, you know, people can whine and cry and scream about any of this stuff.
		Our cities, in particular, our nation's capital, it should be safe.
		It should be one of the safest cities in the country where people from all over our country and the world for that matter can come visit it and say, wow, look at the capital of the United States.
		Beautiful place, safe, great.
		Great, you know, but we've let it just run amuk ever since we gave home rule to Washington, D.C. and the Democrats have run the place into the ground.
		And it's one of the most dangerous cities in America right now.
		And enough, no more.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		I mean, it kind of, I've said this before on the show with how bad D.C. got, is it really did seem like from the city leadership and also the Democrats at large, the National Democrats, is it was almost this attempt to demoralize, you know, patriotic Americans by taking their capital and just turning it into a disaster zone.
		And then like I touched on earlier is we already have a.
		population where a large proportion feel like their lives are devoid of meaning.
		I mean, you know, I hate to attribute such grandiose sort of themes to the Trump administration, but it does seem to be like providing a pathway forward.
		You know, again, you know, it's not articulated the best sometimes, but the general theme just seems like, no, this is, we're taking control.
		Like you said, enough is enough.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, that's exactly right.
		And the average American.
		I do believe supports what President Trump's trying to do.
		And at least in my district, they do.
		And it's just like, no more of this.
		No more.
		And it's just the very simple, just common sense things that used to be just kind of cultural norms.
		Like maybe we don't want riots and violence in our cities.
		And it's like, well, it's a little more complicated than that.
		It's like, no, actually, it's not.
		And instead of just like talking around these issues and, you know, why these violent acts are happening and, you know, kind of origin stories and think no more.
		No, we're not doing that anymore.
		Enough.
		No more.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		yeah yeah i i mean The conservative movement has put out a lot of paperwork and a lot of reading material over the last few decades.
		And it feels like, although the Trump administration certainly is guided by some policy experts.
		There's no question about that.
		They're tired of theorizing.
		It's more of an administration of doing.
		Yeah.
		I mean, I'm sure you've seen it coming through Congress.
		We have a lot of great theorizers, certainly.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
		Yeah.
		I mean, look, the think tanks can think this stuff to death.
		That's fine.
		Write papers and all that and reams of papers and we all look at them.
		It's interesting.
		No, and Trump just has, in my view, the greatest instincts of any president I can really think of.
		I mean, it is his superpower.
		I mean, he's just got gut instincts that are almost always correct, if not always correct.
		I mean, he ends up being right basically every time.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Well, I mean, and like we were talking earlier, there's this whole think tank coalition, this part of the conservative movement.
		I mean, I know a lot of people that are in these things.
		There's some fantastic people.
		There's no question about that.
		So a lot of this is part of this broader infrastructure that has built up, that the GOP has been built up on over the last few decades.
		They went to war with Trump in 2016 until he was able to really wrestle control of the party away from what we'll just say the establishment.
		But another figure that was villainized viciously by the establishment was Pat Buchanan.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And so I saw your proposal and I found that very exciting because I feel like he's not getting the love and respect that he deserves.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		No, you know, and so many times there's.
		an individual in history that has this outsized impact and was ahead of their time.
		And Pat Buchanan is certainly one of those.
		Now, if he was a Democrat, I'm sure some statue would already be built to him.
		But as a Republican, you know, they've tried to kind of bury him for a very long time.
		But he was, I mean, America first before we were really talking about America first.
		And, you know, his book came out in 2002, so far ahead of its time, The Death of the West.
		And everything basically in that book has come true, all of it in terms of immigration, population decline in the West and all these other things.
		He's been right the whole time.
		And it seems so.
		It seems just like common sense now, some of the things that he was saying.
		But back in the 90s, he stated things like the economy is not more important than the country.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		You know, and like at the time, it's like, oh, well, no, you know, GDP growth, mister Buchanan.
		I mean, this is very important.
		But it's so common sense now, and everybody seems to be aligned to those kind of principles and ideas.
		But, you know, back then it was kind of sacrosanct.
		It's like, what are you talking about?
		Globalization, Pat.
		You know, it's a wave of the future.
		And he even showed up.
		Fight against NAFTA at the time when Clinton was pushing the NAFTA deal, which obviously eventually became law, it hurt the steel workers in my district, NAFTA did.
		And Pat Buchanan went up there and gave a great speech about it.
		And thousands of our guys ended up losing jobs over NAFTA.
		And flash forward to Trump, he gets rid of NAFTA.
		And then you have the USMCA trade agreement, which kind of obviously leveled the playing field.
		But all of those things that Pat Buchanan had been talking about for decades are now actually coming to fruition.
		And I know in his speech there where he lost one of his presidential runs, he just said he hoped he lived long enough to actually see these ideas come to fruition and the establishment essentially.
		die.
		And look, here he is.
		And that's part of why I wrote the letter to the president and request that he receive the Medal of Freedom is that obviously his contributions, he is also 86 years old now, and it would be great to honor him in his lifetime for what he did and took all the arrows for a very long time.
		Look, President Trump has taken all the arrows as well, more so than any politician that I can think of.
		I mean, he's almost paid the ultimate price for his views at least twice now.
		But Pat, he was really a visionary in this kind of America-first, more populist-aligned vision of the Republican Party.
		And it's come to fruition.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		I mean, for me, coming, like I was born in 2001.
		So, you know, I grew up, my sort of awareness of politics has been post-Trump the entire time.
		I was, what, 14, 15 when he was the Republican nominee.
		So I've always known a GOP that was.
		um um trumpian in nature um i mean could you maybe elaborate more on what sort of environment pat buchanan was in specifically in his oh yeah i mean so this, he comes out of the Nixon White House.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		And Nixon was more aligned with Trump than the preceding presidents after Richard Nixon in terms of this kind of working class coalition America First.
		But Pat Buchanan was living in the time and fighting in the time in the 80s.
		Well, he worked for Reagan, but after that, particularly the 90s.
		And where it was, look, we won the Cold War.
		You had this fusionist Republican movement of social conservatives, libertarians and kind of anti-communists, what we'd kind of call more like neocons now, and created this conservative movement where all three were kind of working together to defeat communism, which had negative ramifications for everybody within that party coalition.
		But Pat Buchanan was the guy.
		So it's like the Christian conservatives were fine with – And so we kind of traded some things within that coalition of the Republican Party.
		But Pat Buchanan was very consistent throughout all of this.
		And like I said, the economy is not more important than the country.
		I'm back.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The anti-Buchanan coalition was attacking our internet connection.
unidentified		I'm going to get back to work.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Peace out, guys.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, where we left off, you were kind of breaking down the dynamic of Buchanan's relationship with the GOP in the early nineties.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Yeah, and as people might remember, he ran against Bob Dole for the Republican nomination for president.
		And look, he stuck by his guns and his principles throughout this whole thing.
		Of course, the neocons ended up winning that primary election, which then Dole got hammered in the general election because the electorate was in a different place and weren't buying what we were selling.
		And had Pat Buchanan been nominated, who knows?
		Maybe perhaps he would have been successful.
		But he fought the establishment and the neocons his entire career.
		And then early 2000s starts the American Conservative, the publication that actually I placed that op-ed in about wanting Pat Buchanan to return.
unidentified		Back.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		So there's a lot of legacy there for Pat Buchanan and the conservative movement.
		And he never wavered, he never gave up and fought it tooth and nail.
		And the whole time, and I know it's hard to kind of think about it now, but he was like a cook and a crank.
		That's, you know, people were just like, this guy's crazy.
		I know what he's talking about.
		Then to be proven correct the whole time in which he's long lived long enough to be able to see that.
		That's why we got to honor this great man.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		I mean, like I said, coming kind of matriculating into politics in the post-Trump era, every time I saw a quote from Buchanan, I was like, yeah, that panned out only to realize it was 30 years earlier.
		And I'm sitting here thinking, well, if he would have won 30 years earlier, he could have mopped this up much earlier.
		We'd be in a much better, or I should say, the fight wouldn't be nearly as difficult.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		What sort of, I mean, what sort of his legacy policy-wise are you seeing that's living on through this second Trump admin specifically?
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Well, specifically is immigration and border security, which he talked about, I mean, and everybody was like, this guy is nuts.
		He wants to build a wall.
		And he was very adamant about controlling immigration, but secondarily is also trade.
		And, you know, I know I've mentioned it a couple times, but it's so aptly put.
		And that's what drove mass immigration, open borders, bad trade deals, all those other things.
		And so I'm sure he's very happy right now to see the tariffs, the immigration policies now being corrected.
		So there's a lot there.
		There's a lot there.
		But I think those are kind of the big two to me is immigration and reasserting the sovereignty and importance of citizenship in this country.
		And then also adjusting the trade framework that we've had in this country for a long time where we've been getting taken advantage of and other countries are essentially profiting off of us.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
		You mentioned his 2002 book, The Death of the West earlier.
		And I mean, you saw it come to life with this whole redistricting fight where he was arguing in the book that sort of this recomposition of the country that was occurring would lead to, you know, huge political, it would have huge political ramifications.
		And I mean, I think the state of California is exhibit A. We're seeing it with the redistricting fight.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		I know, exactly right.
		And, you know, in the last census, whether someone was a citizen or not a citizen, they were counted in the census for the congressional districts.
		Now, in this next census.
		that we cannot allow that to happen.
		That doesn't make any sense that part of your district is determined by people who are not even in this country legally.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Right.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Like how does that.
		make, it doesn't make any sense.
		It doesn't make any sense at all.
		So I think that's going to have a huge effect on how many seats Democrats actually hold.
		And Pat Buchanan was right about this the entire time.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, absolutely.
		Well, and you're even seeing some of his further predictions in the book specifically referring to like Western Europe.
		as far as immigration, where he talked about, you know, the changing composition, changing the culture and making it a more unstable place.
		I mean, you look at what's happening in England right now, where like throwing up a St. George's cross will put you in a prison, like absolute insanity.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		And so he was 100% right on that as well.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		I mean, it's if people have read that book, The Death of the West, and you know, I need to go back and reread it again.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Now as well.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		But I mean, it's astounding how right he was.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Well, I gotta ask, I mean, since you, you, you wrote the letter, I mean, do you have a sense on how, I mean, I don't know, maybe this is too forward, but do you have a sense on how likely it is that some sort of recognition occurs?
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Well, I have been talking to White House staff about this, and it does seem that there is some interest in doing this.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Not saying it's going to happen, but we've had some really, I've had personally myself some very positive conversations with the White House that this might be a possibility.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's fantastic.
		I mean, like I said, like you were touching on earlier, I mean, you really do see the fingerprints of his policy proposals in the second Trump administration.
		I mean, I can say anecdotally, you know, speaking to White House staffers, a lot of them were heavily influenced by Pat Buchanan.
		And so it's really cool to see him sort of getting the recognition he deserves.
		I had one more question kind of correlating to that is.
		you know what do you think the long-term effect of trump and maga is i mean because you know we still have three years of trump obviously this can be fantastic but this jd vance you know potentially jd vance taking the the torch on taking take the mantle of MAGA.
		It's kind of interesting, you know, talking about Pat Buchanan and his policy proposals extending beyond Trump.
		I mean, what is your view of MAGA as a long-term, you know, policy platform?
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Well, you know, that's certainly where I align myself, right?
		And I consider myself part of that movement.
		And certainly that's where I align in terms of being a member of Congress.
		But I like MAGA.
		So we'll stick with that.
		The, if you look at this things right now in terms of Vice President Vance taking up the reins and God willing becoming the next president of the United States.
		Yo, because be the VP nomination nominee and hopefully fill that office.
		And then you do have a deep bench within MAGA.
		And it's not going away, it's just growing more and more.
		Not only do we have presidential candidates, we have congressional candidates, Senate candidates, and they are winning and filling these seats.
		So to me, this is just the beginning.
		This isn't the end.
		We're like in chapter one right now, which I think is really exciting and the realignment of the constituencies around the country toward MAGA, particularly in the working class.
		You know, not saying this is going to happen to us, God willing it does, but as you might recall back in the day, the Democrats had the working class vote just locked up in Congress.
		They had a 40-year majority.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		They, you know, they, and they got their way for a very long period of time.
		And I think if we are with the people and the American people, particularly the working people of this country, we could be in power for a very long time.
		and have a very positive effect on the average men and women of this great country.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Well, I love it.
		I'm glad we got to get you back in.
		Um, again, thank you.
		Thank you for stopping by and having a chat.
		I think this is fantastic.
		Uh, where can people find more of you?
unidentified		Yeah.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So I'm on, uh, X and Facebook and Instagram and all that.
		Riley Moore WV.
		That's my, uh, personal handle and, uh, Rep Riley Moore is my, uh, my official one.
		So either one, uh, we stay pretty active on there and, uh, come look me up.
		Hopefully I'll be back over to the skate park soon.
		So yeah.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Keen on it.
		I know Serge is keen on it.
		He was ready to take a, I think a game of skate, I think.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I do need to play him in a game of skate.
		Yeah.
		And that is going to happen.
		But I need, I just haven't skated a little bit.
		So I don't want to go in cold.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Right.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Get ready.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		I love it.
		Well, appreciate it.
		Appreciate you stopping in.
		Have a good rest of your day.
riley moore ▲ ● ▼		Hey, you too.
unidentified		Thanks.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Thanks.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Yep.
		Bye-bye.
		All righty.
		That was Rep. uh rep riley moore uh i'm i'm very happy that we got to get him uh back in the show here because uh yeah the the papu can thing you know he's kind of an unsung hero of the MAGA movement.
		Again, if you haven't read his books, broadly speaking, or his pieces over the years, you really do see his fingerprints all over the MAGA agenda.
		So I think it's fantastic that Rhett Moore is showing him the love that he deserves, especially because he's still alive.
		He's still alive.
		He is 86, I believe.
		That's what Mr. Moore said.
		So with that.
		Thanks for watching.
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