This book argues that the American conservative movement, as it now
exists, does not have deep roots. It began in the 1950s as the
invention of journalists and men of letters reacting to the early
Cold War and trying to construct a rallying point for likeminded
opponents of international Communism. The resulting movement has
exaggerated the permanence of its values; while its militant
anti-Communism, instilled in its followers, and periodic
suppression of dissent have weakened its capacity for internal
debate. Their movement came to power at least partly by burying an
older anti-welfare state Right, one that in fact had enjoyed a
social following that was concentrated in a small-town America. The
newcomers played down the merits of those they had replaced; and in
the 1980's the neoconservatives, who took over the postwar
conservative movement from an earlier generation, belittled their
predecessors in a similar way. Among the movement's major
accomplishments has been to recreate its own past. The success of
this revised history lies in the fact that even the movement's
critics are now inclined to accept it.
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