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Article: The Republican civil war: can the GOP make a comeback by embracing the welfare state?(Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream)(Critical essay)
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- November 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, New York: Doubleday, 256 pages, $23.95
AFTER SEVEN-PLUS years of George W. Bush, conservatives find themselves in a civil war. Bush partisans and neoconservafives have ditched "compassionate conservatism" and "national greatness conservatism" as slogans, but they still believe in a more vigorous, active government than did the right-wingers of yesteryear. Deficit hawks, libertarian-leaning conservatives, Barry Goldwater acolytes, and a great many rank-and-file Republicans, on the other hand, continue to profess something closer to Thomas ...