Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan praised President Donald Trump’s selection of Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser, saying that McMaster had “no experience in the snake pit of Washington, D.C.” that the country “repudiated” on Election Day during an interview Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

McMaster, who replaced former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn after he resigned last week, served in Afghanistan and in Iraq alongside Gens. David Petraeus and James Mattis, Trump’s secretary of defense. The new national security adviser also wrote a book titled “Dereliction of Duty.” Noting that people on both sides of the political aisle seem to approve of McMaster, Buchanan said McMaster will bring an outsider mentality to Washington.

“[Washington] was repudiated in the election, and this is the comeback that is taking pace right now.”

“So I’m sort of impressed with the guy. He has no experience in the snake pit of Washington, D.C., apparently,” Buchanan said. “But I think McMaster, from everything I’ve read about him, he is very accomplished. He’s a brilliant guy. He was, he is not a ‘go along with the program’ type of fellow.”

Buchanan, who served as a senior adviser to former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, noted that McMaster’s outsider persona seems to line up with Trump’s own image — an image that has flown in the face of the Washington establishment and its elite.

“Trump has come to this town in which he got four percent of the vote, which tells you what kind of support he’s got. And he’s probably got similar support if it were a closet vote up on the Hill,” Buchanan said, noting that Democrats and establishment Republicans are doing everything in their power to thwart and stall Trump’s agenda.

“And if these folks don’t like his immigration program and they prefer amnesty and they prefer the [[Sen.] John McCain [R-Ariz.] reform and the George Bush reform, then they just don’t act. And if they don’t, Trump can’t get his program through,” Buchanan said.

Noting that “slow-walking” is what these politicians do, Buchanan said that “somebody’s gotta get them in shape,” or else they’re “not coming back next year” after the 2018 midterm congressional elections.

Liberals in particular, Buchanan said, are adverse to Trump’s agenda and changing the status quo because they “believe in government action and believe in the constant expansion of government power and programs and beneficiaries and employees because they are the party of government.”

“You’ve got to get [Trump’s agenda] done, and to do that you’ve got to have the cooperation of Congress,” Buchanan said. “And I think those guys do not believe in the kind of controls on the border Trump does. They don’t believe in the kind of tax program he does. and so I think they — slow-walking is a good way to describe it.”

“[Congress] does not want responsibility. They don’t want accountability”” Buchanan added.

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Specifically noting how McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have positioned themselves as vehement and vocal Trump criticism all throughout his campaign and now into his presidency, Buchanan said the target audience for their rants are solely Washingtonians and anti-Trumpers.

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“And they get tremendous press from this and they travel all over the world and speak. From a purely personal self-interest part on their part, it makes a lot of sense what they’re doing,” Buchanan said. “But they hope to make themselves the sort of South Pole to the North Pole that Trump represents, and that they are the voice inside, the dissenters inside the Republican Party — and in the anticipation that somethings going to happen to Trump and that people are going to say, ‘Gee, we should have listened to McCain and Graham.'”

But the voters made their opinion regarding these Washingtonian voices quite clear on Election Day, Buchanan said.

“[Washington] was repudiated in the election, and this is the comeback that is taking pace right now,” Buchanan said.