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The The Right Right NationNation
John Micklethwait
Adrian Wooldridge
“I am amazed at the thought of an education cut! This is the most important thing in society. Every liberal – including me – will disapprove.”
Dwight Eisenhower, 1952
“These without doubt are the years of the liberal. Almost everyone now so describes himself.”
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1964
The changing geography
The changing geography
Conservatism of House of Representatives
Conservatism of House of Representatives
Conservatism of House of Representatives
Conservatism of House of Representatives
Income v valuesVoters with income over $100,000
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Bush
Gore
Income v valuesChurch attendance
0 20 40 60 80
Never
Once a week
More than once aweek
Gore Bush
Would President Kerry be different?
Iraq Israel
Kyoto Trade
American and British public opinion selected social indicators, %
American and British public opinion selected issues, %
Are you proud to be…?% answering “very proud”
“Religion plays a very important role in my life”
“Which is more important for government?”
Our cheap apartment in the Bronx boasts “electric lights, gas cooking-range, bath, telephone, automatic service elevator and even a chute for the garbage.”
Leon Trotsky, 1917
“America is so purely bourgeois, so entirely without a feudal past and therefore proud of its purely bourgeois organization.”
Friedrich Engels, 1890
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.”
Oscar Wilde
Powering aheadPopulation, m
“So inevitable, and yet so completely unforeseen.”
Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution
The The Right Right NationNation
John Micklethwait
Adrian Wooldridge