The Fall of Conservatism
George Packer writes for The New Yorker: "The era of American politics that has been dying before our eyes was born in 1966. That January, a twenty-seven-year-old editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named Patrick Buchanan went to work for Richard Nixon, who was just beginning the most improbable political comeback in American history. Having served as Vice-President in the Eisenhower Administration, Nixon had lost the Presidency by a whisker to John F. Kennedy, in 1960, and had been humiliated in a 1962 bid for the California governorship. But he saw that he could propel himself back to power on the strength of a new feeling among Americans who, appalled by the chaos of the cities, the moral heedlessness of the young, and the insults to national pride in Vietnam, were ready to blame it all on the liberalism of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Right-wing populism was bubbling up from below; it needed to be guided by a leader who understood its resentments because he felt them, too."
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http://www.truthout.org/article/the-fall-conservatism
This article was previously published on Truthout. While we strive for fresh content each day, this in-depth look at the rise and fall of conservatism in the United States is so historically rich, unique, and timely that it seemed our readers deserved another opportunity to read it. ~slp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=conservatism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Packer
rudkla - 15. Jun, 19:36
