Completed: 10/13/2020
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: My wife
Review:
This is a book written by a conservative for conservatives. As such, some of the positions assumed made me queasy. Having said that, however, it is an interesting insight into how Republicans have moved away from a party of principal and become a party of power. Some of the history of the modern conservative movement was new to me and did not focus on things like the Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers as so many others have. It did spend a lot of time on Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and basically made the argument that the party has skewed to the party of white people (a diminishing demographic). There is little doubt that things like the Lincoln Project (the author is part of that effort) and Principals First will try to bring the Republican party back to fundamental principals and this author is surely making that effort. I wonder if it will work. Being able to use "alternative facts" (because facts have a liberal bias as Stephen Colbert says) is heady and frees the Republicans from reality, but it also untethers them from reality. I would rather have a constructive dialog with someone argues from facts instead of someone yelling how great their candidate is.
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