There is a certain astonishment in political journalism over the current state of the Republican Party. Sympathetic liberals like E. J. Dionne and idiosyncratic conservatives like Michael Gerson join apostate Republicans like David Frum in protesting the GOP’s secession from moderation, compromise, and any ideologically inconvenient facts. The 2010 midterm elections only shar (...)
June 01, 2012
Books
Base Instincts
Geoffrey Kabaservice's 'Rule and Ruin'
The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea PartyGeoffrey KabaserviceOxford University Press, $29.95, 504 pp.
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Newt Gingrich, the last hope of moderate Republicans? God help us all!
Did Kabaservice miss Newt's revolutionary period?