Review: How insiders and true believers frame political history
,” an institutionalist survey of 100 years of the American conservative movement. Kazin, editor emeritus of the journal Dissent, is a longtime thinker on the left; Continetti, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is enmeshed in the right through ties of profession, family and conviction.
The contradiction was present when Martin Van Buren began building the party. It was there during the crusades against the “money power” by thrice-nominated populist William Jennings Bryan. It endured in the Gilded Age, when Democrats displayed a “cynical blend of racial supremacy and class and ethnic uplift,” Kazin writes. In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, the party was so divided that it held competing national conventions and ultimately ran two presidential tickets.
But the Democrats could recapture and retain the White House only by preaching the end of big government and privileging opportunity over fairness. Clinton’s election “seemed to prove that the centrists had been right all along,” Kazin admits. Throughout the 1990s, the progressive left had “neither the ideas nor the numbers” to sway the Democratic Party in its direction. Kazin recalls playing poker with Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos in 1996 and asking him how to push Clinton further left.
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