cawacko
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For those into reading an excellent and pretty quick read from Gerald Seib of the WSJ entitled: "We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution"
It's nothing we don't know but does a great job going through conservatives being in the wilderness in the '70's and how Reagan and other early conservative think tanks and policy advocacy groups came about in the late '70's and early '80's. Goes through Reagan's optimism and belief in free trade and pro-immigration along with how anti-communism kept a diverse coalition together and how that started to splinter during Bush Sr.'s term with the fall of the Soviet Union and candidacy of Pat Buchannan. Gets into how Gingrich came up and how prior to him Republicans never thought they could win control of the House. Goes to the Bush Jr. years and we really start to see a split on immigration. Then you have the Wall St bailouts and a real populist strain hits the party along with much stronger anti-immigration views and less favorable view of free trade which lead to Trump.
Thought it an excellent book for any political junkie.
https://www.amazon.com/Should-Have-Seen-Coming-Trump/dp/0593135156
It's nothing we don't know but does a great job going through conservatives being in the wilderness in the '70's and how Reagan and other early conservative think tanks and policy advocacy groups came about in the late '70's and early '80's. Goes through Reagan's optimism and belief in free trade and pro-immigration along with how anti-communism kept a diverse coalition together and how that started to splinter during Bush Sr.'s term with the fall of the Soviet Union and candidacy of Pat Buchannan. Gets into how Gingrich came up and how prior to him Republicans never thought they could win control of the House. Goes to the Bush Jr. years and we really start to see a split on immigration. Then you have the Wall St bailouts and a real populist strain hits the party along with much stronger anti-immigration views and less favorable view of free trade which lead to Trump.
Thought it an excellent book for any political junkie.
https://www.amazon.com/Should-Have-Seen-Coming-Trump/dp/0593135156