| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The dream of republican virtue -- I. Progressive and conservative -- After Trump -- What is progressive conservatism? -- The four turnings -- A cause, interrupted -- II. Restoring the American dream -- Inequality : and why it matters -- Immobility : and why it matters -- The left's betrayal -- Why aristocracies never really go away -- III. Draining the swamp -- American corruption -- Where did we go wrong? -- IV. Nationalism -- Anti-nationalism -- Liberal nationalism -- Glory and fraternity -- V. The promise of good government -- The recovery of republican virtue -- A contract with America. |
| Summary |
"The Republican Party can recover from the shellacking of 2020 and become America's natural governing party by returning to its roots as the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. It must champion the common good and the American ideals of equality and liberty that are opposed by a Democratic party that seeks to divide Americans by race and gender. The GOP must also become the party of the American Dream, the idea that whoever you are and wherever you come from, you can get ahead and know that your children will have it better than you did. It must show how the Democrats became the party of inequality and immobility through policies which benefited their elites and created a new aristocracy. What structural racism exists in America has been created by Democrats through their education, immigration and job-killing policies. Americans aren't cynical and oppose public corruption. The GOP stupidly gave the issue away to the Democrats and needs to become the party of clean government and campaign finance reform. To return to its roots, the GOP must abandon the ideologies of the last 60 years. The party's spokesmen communicated a perfect fidelity to a few, simple ideas but also an indifference to people. Trump showed how mistaken this was, and Republicans will not return to power if they abandon the ideas he brought to the party in 2016. Doing all that, the GOP will become the only party that Americans can, with honor, support"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
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Conservatism -- United States.
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (OCoLC)fst00544975
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Conservatism. (OCoLC)fst00875582
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Buckley, F. H. (Francis H.), 1948- Progressive conservatism First American edition. New York : Encounter Books, 2022 9781641772549 (DLC) 2022000677 |
| ISBN |
9781641772532 (hardcover) |
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1641772530 |
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9781641772549 (ebook) |
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