The Secret Code

How Republicans Can Become America's Natural Governing Party

F.H. Buckley

• Editorial: Encounter Books
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781641772549
• Categoría: Politics & International Relations
• Categoría: Conservatism & Liberalism

The Republican Party can recover from the shellacking of 2020 and become America's natural governing party by returning to its roots as the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. It must champion the common good and the American ideals of equality and liberty that are opposed by a Democratic party that seeks to divide Americans by race and gender.The GOP must also become the party of the American Dream, the idea that whoever you are and wherever you come from, you can get ahead and know that your children will have it better than you did. It must show how the Democrats became the party of inequality and immobility through policies which benefited their elites and created a new aristocracy. What structural racism exists in America has been created by Democrats through their education, immigration and job-killing policies.Americans aren't cynical and oppose public corruption. The GOP stupidly gave the issue away to the Democrats and needs to become the party of clean government and campaign finance reform.To return to its roots, the GOP must abandon the ideologies of the last 60 years. The party's spokesmen communicated a perfect fidelity to a few, simple ideas but also an indifference to people. Trump showed how mistaken this was, and Republicans will not return to power if they abandon the ideas he brought to the party in 2016.Doing all that, the GOP will become the only party that Americans can, with honor, support.

INDEX

• Abramoff, Jack, 200
• absentee voting fraud, 202
• absolute preferences, 110
• Acemoglu, Daron, 84
• Acosta, Alex, 21
• Acosta, Jim, 14
• Adams, Henry, 41
• Adams, John Quincy, 152
• Affordable Care Act, 27, 70
• Allegory of Good and Bad Government, The, 163
• Allen, Woody, 97
• American Dream; eclipse of, 58–59; government’s duty to, 7; offshoring of, 56, 68, 86, 88; restoring of, 65; Trump’s defense of, 7, 25, 55, 89
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 97
• America, 1–6, as the unknown country, 62–63
• American Hustle, 124
• American Revolution, 159; pride in, 2–3; refighting of, 3–5; republican virtue and, 60; as work of enslavers, 147
• Americans with Disabilities Act, 51
• American Spectator, 58
• Americans for Tax Reform, 195
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick), 173
• Antifa rioters, 17, 23
• anti-nationalism, 143–150; anti-American, 149–150; catnip to elites, 145; Davos Man, 146; globalist, 145–146; identitarian, 147–149; libertarian, 143–145; patriotism, 144; politics, 147; sophisticate, 146–147; Trump’s nationalism, 147
• aristocracies, permanence of, 109–118; absolute preferences, 110; bequest motive, 110, 111–113; choosing future worlds, 114; “coefficient of relatedness,” 112; cyclical theory of history, 115–117; entrepreneurial labor, 110; genopolitics, 117–118; Hamilton’s Law, 112, 113, 115; “inclusive fitness,” 112; laws of primogeniture, 109; relative preferences, 110, 113–114; rule of law, 117; selfish gene, 111; social mobility, 109; traditional aristocracies, 109
• Articles of Confederation, 165
• Arum, Richard, 99
• Aslan, Reza, 96
• Atlantic, The, 96
• Atlee, Clement, 110
• Atwater, Lee, 49
• Avenatti, Michael, 18

• Baldwin, James, 153
• Band of Brothers, 6
• Barr, Bill, 22
• Bartholet...