Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Too Dumb to Fail
Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump | Matt K. Lewis
1 post | 2 read | 1 to read
From a leading voice among young conservatives, an impassioned argument that to stay relevant the Republican Party must look beyond short-term electoral gains and re-commit to historic conservative values. In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Today, Matt Lewis argues, America's inclination toward simplicity and stupidity is stronger than ever, and its greatest victim is the Republican Party. Lewis, a respected conservative columnist and frequent guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe, eviscerates the phenomenon of candidates with a "no experience required" mentality and tea party "patriots" who possess bluster but few core beliefs. Lewis traces the conservative movement's roots, from Edmund Burke to William F. Buckley, and from Goldwater's loss to Reagan's landslide victory. He highlights visionary thinkers who understood nuance and deep ideology and changed the course of the nation. As we approach the 2016 presidential election, Lewis has an urgent message for fellow conservatives: embrace wisdom, humility, qualifications, and inclusion--or face extinction.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
review
AlexandraGriffin
post image
Bailedbailed

⭐️1/2
Huh. Well. That was... different.
The author makes some interesting points about the issues the conservative/GOP party faces, how they got themselves into that mess,&what they need to do to combat those issues and gain voters and grow with the culture.
But there were some things that just absolutely enfuriated me that I couldn't get past. For instance, the "feminization of sports" which is apparently a bad thing (I'm sorry, WHAT?), (cont.)

AlexandraGriffin the reference to that planned parenthood "abortion" video which was proven to be misconstrued and, in the terms of an abortion, completely fake and how the author decidedly didn't take a stance on either of those things, which is just as telling as all the other barbs he threw out along the way to try and let you know that oh no, dont forget he is not a liberal at all - he can insult liberals/the democratic party in unproductive ways just (cont) 8y
AlexandraGriffin so you remember that he's a conservative thru and thru. (I make a point about unconstructive criticism because the author makes a point early on that constructive criticism is important and even necessary, but I guess that's only when he's talking about right wing politics) I got about 80% through when I just couldn't do it anymore. 8y
16 likes2 comments