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Tuesday Night Massacre - Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party (Hardcover)
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Tuesday Night Massacre - Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party (Hardcover)
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While political history has plenty to say about the impact of
Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate
races that same year have garnered far less attention - despite
their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre
looks at those races. In examining the defeat in 1980 of Idaho's
Frank Church, South Dakota's George McGovern, John Culver of Iowa,
and Birch Bayh of Indiana, Marc C. Johnson tells the story of the
beginnings of the divisive partisanship that has become a constant
feature of American politics. The turnover of these seats not only
allowed Republicans to gain control of the Senate for the first
time since 1954 but also fundamentally altered the conduct of
American politics. The incumbents were politicians of national
reputation who often worked with members of the other party to
accomplish significant legislative objectives - but they were,
Johnson suggests, unprepared and ill-equipped to counter nakedly
negative emotional appeals to the 'politically passive voter.' Such
was the campaign of the National Conservative Political Action
Committee (NCPAC), the organization founded by several young
conservative political activists who targeted these four senators
for defeat. Johnson describes how such groups, amassing a great
amount of money, could make outrageous and devastating claims about
incumbents - 'baby killers' who were 'soft on communism,' for
example - on behalf of a candidate who remained above the fray.
Among the key players in this sordid drama are NCPAC chairman Terry
Dolan; Washington lobbyist Charles Black, a top GOP advisor to
several presidential campaigns and one-time business partner of
Paul Manafort; and Roger Stone, self-described 'dirty trickster'
for Richard Nixon and confidant of Donald Trump. Connecting the
dots between the Goldwater era of the 1960s and the ascent of
Trump, Tuesday Night Massacre charts the radicalization of the
Republican Party and the rise of the independent expenditure
campaign, with its divisive, negative techniques, a change that has
deeply - and perhaps permanently - warped the culture of
bipartisanship that once prevailed in American politics.
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