Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
by: Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam
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“Memo to John McCain: Please, please READ THIS BOOK. It can help you win the election and guide Republicans in shaping the political future.
Memo to Democrats: Don’t read this book. It's going to be THE political book of 2008. Republicans will be better off if you choose to ignore it.”
--William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.
Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mind-set of the current Republican power structure.
In a concise examination of recent political trends, the authors show that the Democrats' cultural liberalism makes their party inherently hostile to the interests and values of the working class. But on a host of issues, today's Republican Party lacks a message that speaks to their economic aspirations. Grand New Party offers a new direction—a conservative vision of a limited-but-active government that tackles the threats to working-class prosperity and to the broader American Dream.
With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party will shake up the Right, challenge the Left, and force both sides to confront and adapt to the changing political landscape.
“Memo to John McCain: Please, please READ THIS BOOK. It can help you win the election and guide Republicans in shaping the political future.
Memo to Democrats: Don’t read this book. It's going to be THE political book of 2008. Republicans will be better off if you choose to ignore it.”
--William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.
Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mind-set of the current Republican power structure.
In a concise examination of recent political trends, the authors show that the Democrats' cultural liberalism makes their party inherently hostile to the interests and values of the working class. But on a host of issues, today's Republican Party lacks a message that speaks to their economic aspirations. Grand New Party offers a new direction—a conservative vision of a limited-but-active government that tackles the threats to working-class prosperity and to the broader American Dream.
With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party will shake up the Right, challenge the Left, and force both sides to confront and adapt to the changing political landscape.
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- Democrat Lite
This book promises a lot and fails to deliver. The authors' central insight is a good one: the GOP can renew itself and its electoral appeal by focusing its policy prescriptions on "Sam's Club Republicans," a group that is really what used to be known as Reagan Democrats, soccer moms, or just the good old fashioned working class. However, the actual policy suggestions put forth by the authors take up little more than 70 pages of this 230 page book. Almost half is given over to the authors' version ... Read More
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- No Respect
This is 2 books in one.I like the first book--a fine review of how Goldwater's Conservatives revitalized the GOP at the very moment in history that major economic and demographic changes gave a unique opportunity to build a political majority.I knew this stuff, but it's great to see it in one place.
The 2nd book by these partners from The Atlantic, well, not so much.This is a pragmatist's wish list from a blue collar focus group, ungrounded in principal or purpose beyond the next ... Read More
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- Caring about the working class
When reading this book, it was so nice to see that there are conservatives who care about the needs of the working class.I like all books that offer solutions to problems and/or better alternatives to the status quo.
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- Fundamentally unserious
This book has all the depth of a junior high civics paper. The authors are brimming with schoolboy enthusiasm, yet it's clear that they have no understanding of the most elementary economics. For instance, they propose that the federal government should give wage subsidies to those hard working people in low end jobs, therefore helping them out of poverty, yet they never consider what this effect would have on prices, which would only inflate, leaving the purchasing power of these workers the same. ... Read More
Rating: - Thoughtful and Completely Non-Bogged Down by Partisan Hackery
Due to some time constraints this past summer, I only recently got to read Grand New Party.I was extremely impressed with both the quality of the writing and the quality of the ideas.We've heard populist language from conservatives before, but in this book the authors take the time to largely strip away the rhetoric and come up with many ideas for how one party might realign itself to actually stand up for the people upon which its success has always depended.Some of the ideas I thought were great, ... Read More
- Democrat LiteThis book promises a lot and fails to deliver. The authors' central insight is a good one: the GOP can renew itself and its electoral appeal by focusing its policy prescriptions on "Sam's Club Republicans," a group that is really what used to be known as Reagan Democrats, soccer moms, or just the good old fashioned working class. However, the actual policy suggestions put forth by the authors take up little more than 70 pages of this 230 page book. Almost half is given over to the authors' version ... Read More
- No RespectThis is 2 books in one.I like the first book--a fine review of how Goldwater's Conservatives revitalized the GOP at the very moment in history that major economic and demographic changes gave a unique opportunity to build a political majority.I knew this stuff, but it's great to see it in one place.
The 2nd book by these partners from The Atlantic, well, not so much.This is a pragmatist's wish list from a blue collar focus group, ungrounded in principal or purpose beyond the next ... Read More
- Caring about the working classWhen reading this book, it was so nice to see that there are conservatives who care about the needs of the working class.I like all books that offer solutions to problems and/or better alternatives to the status quo.
- Fundamentally unseriousThis book has all the depth of a junior high civics paper. The authors are brimming with schoolboy enthusiasm, yet it's clear that they have no understanding of the most elementary economics. For instance, they propose that the federal government should give wage subsidies to those hard working people in low end jobs, therefore helping them out of poverty, yet they never consider what this effect would have on prices, which would only inflate, leaving the purchasing power of these workers the same. ... Read More
- Thoughtful and Completely Non-Bogged Down by Partisan HackeryDue to some time constraints this past summer, I only recently got to read Grand New Party.I was extremely impressed with both the quality of the writing and the quality of the ideas.We've heard populist language from conservatives before, but in this book the authors take the time to largely strip away the rhetoric and come up with many ideas for how one party might realign itself to actually stand up for the people upon which its success has always depended.Some of the ideas I thought were great, ... Read More
