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Name: American Carnage
Rating: 3.9 (72 reviews)
Author: Tim Alberta

Tim Alberta

On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

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What’s in it for me? An overview of the forces that gave us Trump.

As Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House moves from one dramatic crisis point to the next, it’s sometimes easy to forget that his presidency is the result of a deeper transformation within the Republican Party itself. While the president takes the limelight, the ideological journey that the Republicans have been on over the last decade tells a more revealing story about America.

From a party of prudent neoconservatives and affluent suburbanites, it’s now the home of laid-off steelworkers and angry white nationalists. But how did it get to this point?

To find out, we’ll follow the story of the Grand Old Party over the last decade. Tracing a line from the populist mood that ripped through the country after the 2008 financial crash, through the right-wing voices on the fringes of the party, to the racism and paranoia that greeted the election of Obama, you’ll learn how the ground was prepared for Trump’s hostile takeover.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how the Republicans rejected “compassionate conservatism;”
why the Tea Party paved the way for Donald Trump; and
what different corporate brands tell us about voting intention.

During the 2008 Republican primaries, the anti-immigration mood signaled what the future would look like for the Republican party.

By 2008, the Republicans had been in government for ten years. The subprime mortgage crisis was in full swing, and the Iraq War had proven a disastrous and costly expedition. If you were a Republican facing the coming election, things looked bleak.

In the primary contests, Republicans expected the debates to center around two big issues: endless war abroad and the financial crisis.

They didn’t. When the various candidates began campaigning in town halls and stadiums around the country, they found that the most heated topic was immigration.

In 2007, President George W. Bush had passed a comprehensive immigration reform plan that would have allowed millions of people without official residency the right to attain full citizenship. John McCain, one of the Republican presidential contenders in 2008, had helped pass that policy.

Now, he was meeting Republican voters and was taken aback by how viscerally angry they were about it. Even in regions where there was very little immigration, it remained the key issue. At one meeting, exasperated by yet another question about “Mexican illegals” endangering the local community, McCain snapped: “Ma’am, you live in New Hampshire, what are you worried about? A bunch of angry French Canadians?”

To mainstream Republican politicians, the root of this pervasive fear was clear: immigrants were scapegoats for the feelings of instability that deindustrialization and free-market policies had brought to large swathes of the US over the last thirty years.

Mitt Romney, who was one of the other contenders in the 2008 contest, understood this. He knew that many of the free-market policies that the Republicans had supported themselves had devastated industry and fragmented public services. Car and steel factories had closed down as the US sought cheap imports. And basic state services had long ago been privatized or underfunded as all was sacrificed to market ideology.

Romney knew all of this but, opportunistically, he played to right-wing prejudices. He even began attacking McCain on his pro-immigration record, insinuating that McCain didn’t understand the real concerns of working Americans. What this all boiled down to was a rejection of what George W. Bush had termed “compassionate conservatism.” Rather than the open, internationalist worldview of the Republican Party establishment over the last thirty years, Romney was inflaming nativist prejudices for political gain.

This theme would return again and again over the coming years.

The 2008 financial crisis brought about an ideological conflict within the Republican Party and the beginnings of a populist mood in the country.

On September 15, 2008, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Then global markets began to crash. The financial crisis, which had been slowly smoldering all summer, had suddenly caught fire.

The president, George W. Bush, responded quickly and assembled a plan that would stabilize the markets.

In response to Barack Obama’s presidency, the political right was consumed with racism and ideological zealotry.

In 2008, beleaguered by the economic crisis and the endless Iraq War, John McCain’s Republicans faced defeat by Barack Obama. It was a certain rout, the kind of landslide victory that signals a generational change in the political mood.

During the campaign itself, the political right was whipped into a frenzy that turned increasingly racist.

The Tea Party movement was an indication of how the Republican Party would be transformed in the future.

Ironically, it took the election of Barack Obama to give the American right its mojo back. Languishing after John McCain’s defeat and still without direction after Bush’s presidency, the right was frightened into action by Obama’s election into office.

And so the “Tea Party” movement was formed on February 19, 2009, after CNBC reporter Rick Santinelli called for a “tea party” in response to Obama’s economic policies. This was a reference to the original Boston Tea Party of the American Revolution.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign transformed the Republican Party.

When Donald Trump entered the Republican primary race in 2015, many people inside the party establishment assumed that it was simply a stunt. They believed that his candidacy was a ploy to promote his public image and hotel chain and that he would drop out before the end. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

When Trump entered the race, he believed the Republicans had become too weak on campaigning and policy. Looking back to the failed campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, he thought the party lacked a killer instinct.

During the primary debates for the 2016 election, Trump shattered Republican Party orthodoxy.

As the primary contests got underway, Trump stood out from his opponents.

Though they differed from each other, candidates like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush were still recognizably establishment Republican politicians. They were all committed to the libertarian, free-trade agenda of the political right, conducted themselves with some modicum of civility, and all had at least a passing familiarity with the basic functions of the state.

The 2016 election results revealed America’s new divides.

As the first results of the election trickled in, what had seemed like an impossibility for months now looked plausible: Trump was winning certain key areas. Mainstream Republicans like Paul Ryan had expected a disastrous wipeout and had written speeches preparing to denounce the whole Trump campaign as a dark moment in the party’s history.

Meanwhile, at Trump Tower, Manhattan, Trump and his campaign team watched the results on a streaming feed.

The culture clash that was consuming America culminated in a tragic incident.

After Trump’s victory, the political polarization that had scarred the campaign only got worse.

His chief strategist, Steve Bannon, relished this culture clash, which he saw as a battle for America’s soul: on one side were liberal elites who had allowed the country to slip toward relativism and decline – on the other, the white working class that was the backbone of the country.

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American Carnage (2019) details the ideological battle at the heart of the Republican Party over the last decade. From George Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” to the Tea Party’s right-wing fervor, Tim Alberta covers the ideological metamorphosis that led to Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Über den Autor

Tim Alberta is the chief political correspondent for Politico Magazine. Before that, he worked for the National Review and National Journal. His journalism has appeared in dozens of major publications, including Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, with his wife and three sons.

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