Ten things trainwreck reveals that REPUBLICANS HOPE YOU NEVER FIND
OUT
Why the conservative movement that spawned Reagan, Gingrich, and
Bush is now dead.
How many core conservative principles the Republicans have
betrayed.
How Republicans have made us less safe, not more.
How Republicans became the biggest spenders of all time.
How much bigger the federal government has grown under
conservative rule.
How many Republicans got caught with their hands in the cookie
jar.
How Republicans went from protecting the environment to
plundering it.
How the party of peacekeepers became the party of perpetual
war.
How Reagan was worse than Nixon--and Bush worse than both.
Why conservatives can never again be trusted with power.
In Bill Press's funniest and most astute book yet, he drives the
final nail into the coffin containing the ideas of the so-called
party of ideas. And it's a coffin many Republican presidential
candidates have been using as a campaign bus.
Conventional conservative wisdom holds that somehow, during the
first seven years of the twenty-first century, the Republican Party
lost its way and abandoned core conservative principles while
maintaining absolute control of all three branches of government.
Is this true? Or are unnecessary wars, ballooning deficits, rampant
corruption, incompetent governance, inadequate public services,
crumbling infrastructure, and repeated attempts to deceive the
public the inevitable consequence of any government based on
conservative political philosophy?
In Trainwreck, one of America's best-known progressive
commentators reveals that, far from betraying conservative ideals,
the administration of George W. Bushhas behaved exactly as anyone
would expect of a group that believes government is evil and always
doomed to failure. Why, asks syndicated radio host and newspaper
columnist Bill Press, would people whose primary message is that
government doesn't work want to prove otherwise?
Press traces the history of the modern conservative movement
from the rise of Robert Taft in the 1940s, through the glory days
of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, to the long and agonizing fall
of George W. Bush. He examines the movement's intellectual
underpinnings in the writings of Russell Kirk and William F.
Buckley Jr. and its national political birth with the nomination of
Barry Goldwater for president in 1964.
This in-depth analysis reveals three very salient facts: hatred
of government has been a core value of the conservative movement
from its inception; the behavior of the George W. Bush
administration has mirrored that of the Reagan administration in
every important way; and, until Hurricane Katrina revealed in 2005
that the emperor had no clothes, movement conservatives were the
president's strongest supporters and closest allies.
Press demonstrates that, while constantly changing and evolving,
conservative positions have remained consistently wrong, and that,
from its inception, the movement was dedicated to tearing things
down, not building them up.
Trainwreck will convince you, once and for all, that the
conservative movement has remained on track for decades--and that,
from the beginning, those tracks were headed for disaster.
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