Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump

by Matt K. Lewis

“invisible hand,” a metaphor that suggested that competition and the pursuit of self-interest organically leads to salutary social benefits.

Would our politics have been better served without William Wilberforce or Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Certainly not.

we got our people elected. But that did not result in the adoption of our agenda.

When you lose intellectuals, you lose popular culture

taxing carbon makes more sense than taxing income.

If conservatism is really the best philosophy, then it can win the free market of ideas among a diverse audience. If we are to turn off voters, then let it be because they disagree with our ideas—not because they drive a different kind of car, or their skin is a tone lighter or darker than ours, or they live in a more or less urban area, or we have allowed them to wrongly believe the worst stereotypes about us.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” A well-run movement operates the same way.