The Washington Times has posted an interview with Pat Buchanan. The man does not sound optimistic, saying that the “conservative movement has passed into history.”

In his 1992 speech to the Republican National Convention in Houston, [Buchanan] declared: “There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself.”

He is still fighting that war.

“American culture has become toxic and poisonous,” he says. “Take a look at what Hollywood produces today and what it produced in the 1950s. The alteration is dramatic.”

He suggests that in some respects, traditionalists might be fighting for a lost cause. “We say we won a great victory by defeating gay marriage in 11 state-ballot referenda in November,” he says.

“But I think in the long run, that will be seen as a victory in defense of a citadel that eventually fell.”

As he later says, “I can’t say we won the cultural war, and it’s more likely we lost it.”