It's popular for the online right to attack "Zombie Reagan." As an expert on just about every right-wing ideology imaginable, here is my take: Reaganism is the worst choice for the GOP ... except for all the other possible options.
Conventional wisdom often assumes political extremes. @HawleyG_PSC offers a different account: one of consistency, moderation, and the complexity of voter opinion. https://t.co/R8H7DAzexA
"Original Sin is a rare work of political non-fiction that people across the partisan divide can enjoy, though for different reasons."
Vintage @HawleyG_PSC@LawLiberty:
https://t.co/FFIZMJBxHA
DANGER:
"A presidential election, according to this thinking, represents a national mandate for the winner, & pushback from other branches or levels of government is viewed as a betrayal of democracy...the public is clamoring for a Caesar."
https://t.co/X0Bk9kfClb
🧵1/4 Is the GOP becoming more radicalized, or are we just misreading the data? In his book "The Moderate Majority," George Hawley dismantles the dominant media narrative that today’s Republicans are becoming more extreme.
His findings challenge major assumptions from the left, with evidence to back them up.
See my review of George Hawley's "The Moderate Majority: Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization" for Fusion (link below). Valuable intervention into the general claim that GOP voters have radicalized. The data simply do not bear this out. 1/
America’s political parties are increasingly divided by education. This poses some challenges for each, and @HawleyG_PSC has broken them down in this review @LawLiberty:
https://t.co/w21c4szvTp
Review of a book that sounds nicely sober, data-driven, and interesting: https://t.co/R2Dtc3C0az
Of course, it helps that it confirms my priors: the GOP base, though it wasn't as conservative as it seemed under Paul Ryan, still isn't as mad as it may seem under Trump. h/t @rclu
Education has become one of the most defining differences between America’s political parties, George Hawley explains in his review of @MattGrossmann and @DaveAHopkins’s book "Polarized by Degrees."
Read the full review!
https://t.co/jIjW7Si1d4
"The best work of quantitative social science I have read in many years."
George Hawley reviews @MattGrossmann and @DaveAHopkins's "Polarized by Degrees" for @LawLiberty.
Nice new review of Polarized by Degrees, with some interesting thoughts on the founding dilemmas of the conservative movement
"the best work of quantitative social science I have read in many years"
https://t.co/WnSkr2ePgy
"Hawley has an almost preternatural ability to walk into a field riddled with political land mines and start describing what he sees in the measured tones of a weatherman or cartographer." https://t.co/Jccw3EnjBo
New Oxford Review, a traditionalist Catholic magazine, asked me to contribute to a symposium. I guess I was the token Protestant. I made the case for classical liberalism and religious pluralism. My comments are about halfway down the page. The link is below.