Introduction:What Happened to Conservatism?
Why Reforming the Country Requires Transforming the Right?
1. The Ambiguous Hero
Ronald Reagan as Conservatism’s Model and Problem
2. In the Shadow of Goldwater
It Didn’t Start with Tea Party
3. From Radicalism to Governing
How Nixon Failed Conservatives, Reagan Thrilled Them and Then Left Them Hanging
4. The End of the Reagan Majority
George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and the Politics of Deadlock
5. The Gingrich Revolution and Conservatism’s Second Chance
M2E2 and the Right’s Achilles’ Heel
6. Put on a Compassionate Face
The Promise and Limits of Compassionate Conservatism
7. Double-edged “Strategery”
George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and the Search for a Fourth Way
8. “I Can Hear You”
How W. United the Country, Then Divided It More than Ever
9. The New, New, Old Right
The Tea Party Explosion That Was Waiting to Happen
10. Dreams of Celestial Choirs
Barack Obama Hopes, but the GOP Doesn’t Change
11. The Logic of Obstruction
Why Conservative Opposition to Obama Was Inevitable
12. The Tea Party Overreaches and Republicans Wage Class War
The Making and Unmaking of Mitt Romney
13. Saying Yes and No to Obama
The Two Electorates and the Cycles of Dysfunction
14. The Fever That Wouldn’t Break
When Winning Two Electorates Isn’t Enough
15. Reforming Conservatism or Trumping It
A New Conservatism, a New Pizza Box, or Something Completely Differently?
16. Up from Goldwater
The Conservative Challenge and America’s Future
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