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Article: Grandiose Old Party: two young conservatives have a plan to revitalize the GOP: embrace massive social engineering.(Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream)(Book review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 2008
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
By Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
Doubleday, 256 pp.
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During the week I spent reading Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party, I had half a dozen different reactions to it. First I was annoyed. Then intrigued. Then, at various times, impressed, curious, and taken aback. And finally a bit baffled. But that's a good thing, right? Better than being bored, certainly.
Let's start with "annoyed." Douthat and Salam, a pair of young conservatives who currently work at the Atlantic, believe that the Republican Party ...