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Hemmer calls Bush "the last Reaganite", intent on pursuing free-trade agreements and tax cuts, while Continetti describes Bush as adopting a principled "freedom agenda" in the War on Terror and notes his efforts at immigration reform. Culture & Critics BOOKS The Roots of Republican Extremism Three new books attempt to trace the GOP's break with reality. When Trump first surfaced as a 2016 presidential candidate, his dizzying ascendance, seemingly out of nowhere, fueled the sense that he was hijacking a GOP theretofore rooted in the confident optimism that had come out of the Reagan era. In the 1988 presidential race, Hemmer reminds us, the television host Pat Robertson had challenged George H. W. Bush in a campaign that tapped into conservative dissatisfaction with Reagan. [Extracted from the article] |
