Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond
- 作者
- 出版社 Simon & Schuster
- 出版时间 2016年9月
- ISBN 1476763801 或 9781476763804
- 定价 118.73
内容简介
FromtheauthorofWhyAmericansHatePolitics,theNewYorkTimesbestsellingand“notablyfair-minded”(TheNewYorkTimesBookReview),storyoftheGOP’sfracturing—fromthe1964GoldwatertakeovertotheTrumpspectacle.
WhytheRightWentWrongoffersan“uptothemoment”(TheChristianScienceMonitor)historicalviewoftherightsincethe1960s.ItscorecontentionisthatAmericanconservatismandtheRepublicanPartytookawrongturnwhentheyadoptedBarryGoldwater’sworldviewduringandafterthe1964campaign.Theradicalismoftoday’sconservatismisnottheproductoftheTeaParty,WashingtonPostcolumnistE.J.Dionnewrites.TheTeaPartiersarethetrueheirstoGoldwaterideology.ThepuritymovementdidmorethandrivemoderatesoutoftheRepublicanParty—itbeatbackalternativedefinitionsofconservatism.
Since1968,noconservativeadministration—notNixonnotReagannottwoBushes—couldliveuptotherhetoricrootedintheGoldwatermovementthatbegantoreshapeAmericanpoliticsfiftyyearsago.ThecollapseoftheNixonpresidencyledtotheriseofRonaldReagan,thedefeatofGeorgeH.W.Bush,toNewtGingrich’srevolution.Bushinitiallyundertookapartialmodernization,preaching“compassionateconservatism”anda“FourthWay”toClinton’s“ThirdWay.”Conservativesquicklydefinedhimasanadvocateof“biggovernment”andnotconservativeenoughonspending,immigration,education,andMedicare.Areturntothetruefaithwastheonlyprescriptiononorder.TheresultwastheTeaParty,whichDionnesays,wasasmuchareactiontoBushastoObama.
ThestateoftheRepublicanparty,controlledbythestrictestbase,isdiminished,Dionnewrites.Ithasbecomewhiteandolderinacountrythatisnolongerthat.Itneedstocomebacktolifeforitsownhealthandthatofthecountry’s,andinWhytheRightWentWrong,Dionne“expertlydelineateswhereweareandhowwegotthere”(ChicagoTribune)—andhowtoreturn.
WhytheRightWentWrongoffersan“uptothemoment”(TheChristianScienceMonitor)historicalviewoftherightsincethe1960s.ItscorecontentionisthatAmericanconservatismandtheRepublicanPartytookawrongturnwhentheyadoptedBarryGoldwater’sworldviewduringandafterthe1964campaign.Theradicalismoftoday’sconservatismisnottheproductoftheTeaParty,WashingtonPostcolumnistE.J.Dionnewrites.TheTeaPartiersarethetrueheirstoGoldwaterideology.ThepuritymovementdidmorethandrivemoderatesoutoftheRepublicanParty—itbeatbackalternativedefinitionsofconservatism.
Since1968,noconservativeadministration—notNixonnotReagannottwoBushes—couldliveuptotherhetoricrootedintheGoldwatermovementthatbegantoreshapeAmericanpoliticsfiftyyearsago.ThecollapseoftheNixonpresidencyledtotheriseofRonaldReagan,thedefeatofGeorgeH.W.Bush,toNewtGingrich’srevolution.Bushinitiallyundertookapartialmodernization,preaching“compassionateconservatism”anda“FourthWay”toClinton’s“ThirdWay.”Conservativesquicklydefinedhimasanadvocateof“biggovernment”andnotconservativeenoughonspending,immigration,education,andMedicare.Areturntothetruefaithwastheonlyprescriptiononorder.TheresultwastheTeaParty,whichDionnesays,wasasmuchareactiontoBushastoObama.
ThestateoftheRepublicanparty,controlledbythestrictestbase,isdiminished,Dionnewrites.Ithasbecomewhiteandolderinacountrythatisnolongerthat.Itneedstocomebacktolifeforitsownhealthandthatofthecountry’s,andinWhytheRightWentWrong,Dionne“expertlydelineateswhereweareandhowwegotthere”(ChicagoTribune)—andhowtoreturn.
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