Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos
Jan 6. This is a history of the Republican Party from roughly Nixon/Reagan to the present. The author posits two factors that led to the rightward shift of the Republican Party (or as he states it the shift to chaos) - ambivalent relationship with business and weak party structure. He triest to make these points with a deep historcal analysis of the 70s and 80s, which was -- frankly -- kind of boring. The more interesting part was more modern history - Clinton through the present time. I'm not sure I got a lot of new insights but did get a sense of how business related to and now relates to the Republican party and how the Tea Party and Trump complicated that relationship.
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