Future right
Subtitle: forging a new Republican majority
By: Donald T. Critchlow
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781250087584; 9781250087591
Subjects: Conservatism; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Party affiliation
Description: Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political acumen if they are to win over those constituencies that have become the base of the Democratic Party: minorities, young women, and millennials. Behind the reality of current voting patterns, which without doubt presents a gloomy future for the Republican Party, social trends and a deeper analysis of political attitudes reveal there is much room for Republican optimism. In this critical, data-driven book, Future Right, Donald Critchlow explores strategies for the right that will help them succeed where Democrats are floundering: how to speak to the new population of a rising and successful minority class and how to reform the salacious alliance between the government and the one percent. It is time for Republicans to adapt to societal trends for the creation of a new, transformative politics that will not only help them win the future elections, but revive a system long overrun by outmoded, top-heavy politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women; title: Minorities; title: Millennials; title: Boomers; title: The middle class; title: Religious voters; title: Polarized electorate.