Against Gov’t funded day care Reforms establishing educational equity Social services for battered women and single moms Equal Rights Amendment B. The New Right “Moral majority” Televangelists Jerry Falwell Jesse Helms: ok w/ KKK, segregation, tobacco companies, Watergate, pollution from cars Anti-MLK Becomes Senator of North Carolina II. Florida Everglades Silent Spring: DDT/pesticides Results Earth Day: April 22 Recycling Decreased meat consumption Personal gardens organic Environmental groups E. ![]() Affirmative Action = “reverse” discrimination.“Outsider” deregulated airline industry Banks unsupervised Inflation at its worst College tuition at a all time high Democrat C. Pardons Nixon WIN? Whip Inflation Now Effectiveness? Republican C. Population shifts – Why? Sunbelt Snowbelt/rustbelt B. of Energy Speed/daylight Local gov’t solutions prices increase 3. Oil embargo = Gas doubles Rationing Dept. ![]() Stagflation: increased prices and unemployment along with decreased economic activity 2. Here Critchlow foresees a new epoch in which the old conservative-progressive divide is unable to address the problems caused by national debt, entitlement deficits, and a new global economy-a new reality sure to transform both parties.Īs conservatives continue to wave the banners of limited government, individual responsibility, and free enterprise, Critchlow’s book provides a clear guide to the country’s most dynamic political movement and is essential reading for students and citizens alike as the political center continues to tack to the right.Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987 This updated edition not only features a new preface and conclusion but also boasts an entirely new chapter covering the 2008 presidential election, the 2008 financial meltdown, the first two years of Obama’s presidency, the emergence of the Tea Party, the 2010 midterms, and ongoing economic problems. ![]() Throughout he delineates the intellectual foundations of the Right’s positions-including the ongoing schism that separates social conservatives from libertarians-while plumbing America's increasing ideological divide. Bush injected into American politics a level of partisanship not seen since the nineteenth century.Ĭritchlow recounts the conflict between purity of principle and political practice for conservatives, and the dilemma of maintaining an anti-statist ideology in an era of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. Looking back at the 1964 Goldwater debacle and the scandal-plagued Nixon years, he then revisits the triumph of the Reagan presidency and describes how George W. He shows how conservatives, from think tank theorists to grassroots mobilizers, gained control of the Republican party by defeating its liberal eastern wing only to find that the welfare state was not so easily dismantled. ![]() In tracing the conservative revival, Critchlow chronicles how conservative beliefs were translated into political power. Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback, it continues to offer the best account of the conservative struggle to reverse the momentum of the New Deal. Hailed as “perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print” ( American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy has depicted, as no other book has, the wild ride of the Republican Right.
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