05-16-2016, 02:35 PM
(05-16-2016, 08:58 AM)Anthony Wrote: But the American right is being redefined - just like its left was redefined in the 1960s. The new American right is a lot like the "Deutschland Den Deutschen" ("Germany is for Germans") right in Germany, which emphasizes nationalism (arguably xenophobia), not William Graham Sumner/Friedrich Hayek/Ayn Rand economics.
Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan etc. are still stuck in the latter mold - which is why they lost, just like the labor-dominated, white-ethnic "hardhats" lost to George McGovern and his "Acid, Amnesty and Abortion" in the Democratic Party in 1972.
The GOP needs to be redefined to be viable as a major party. I doubt that the American right as you described can establish a viable new party.
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