Future Right
Forging a New Republican Majority
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Publisher 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Critchlow (American Political History: A Very Short Introduction) uses data pulled from the last few presidential and mid-term elections, as well as anecdotal profiles of independent and right-leaning Americans from all walks of life, to point at a better future for the party of Lincoln and Reagan despite losses in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. That future is contingent on the party navigating the various demographic roadblocks in its way, as epitomized by the Democratic lead with the growing, increasingly vital non-white vote. Critchlow notes that the mid-term elections during Obama's presidency have skewed Republican, and Democratic charges that Republicans have led a "war on women" have fallen flat in red and swing states. Critchlow argues that a majority of voters are focused on leadership and the economy, rather than on the "culture war," and that Republicans can win on these issues. Well-researched and detailed to the point of repetitiveness, Critchlow's study in which Donald Trump's name goes conspicuously unmentioned may be just what Republican loyalists need to realize that a different approach is needed.
