Let Them Eat Tweets Quotes

“Voters are scattered all over the ideological map, but there are strikingly few that thrill to the plutocratic combination of economic conservatism and social liberalism.”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

“When inequality was higher, parties on the right ramped up their emphasis on divisive noneconomic issues, especially those surrounding race, ethnicity, religion, and immigration.”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

“The rise of inequality and fall of unions are closely linked.”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

“In a democratizing but highly unequal country, ordinary voters did not have deeply “conservative instincts” about economic policy. British Conservatives did, when necessary, give ground on economic issues and political reform. At the heart of Tory success, however, was the articulation and promotion of another set of issues that would resonate with voters. Conservatives harnessed—and, for the most part, domesticated—the forces of nationalism (by supporting and expanding the Empire), religion (by maintaining the preeminence of the Anglican church), and tradition (by backing the monarchy).”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

“As the concentration of wealth and power at the top increased, the Democratic Party faced cross-pressures that muddied its message and moderated its stances on economic matters. The Republic Party, in stark contrast, radicalized. Starting as a standard-issue center-right party, it mutated into an ultraconservative insurgent force, one that cast its lot with plutocracy even as plutocracy's rise endangered the economic security and opportunity of many of its voters.”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

“A mostly anonymous figure until his death in 2018, Hofeller liked to describe gerrymandering as “the only legalized form of vote-stealing left in the United States.” He once told an audience of state legislators, “Redistricting is like an election in reverse. It’s a great event. Usually the voters get to pick the politicians. In redistricting, the politicians get to pick the voters.”
― Jacob S. Hacker, Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality