Why the Right Went Wrong: ConservatismFrom Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond (91 page)

Amazon.com,
43

American Crossroads,
318

American Dreams
(Rubio),
412

American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
247
–48,
371
,
420
,
421

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
247

American Liberty League,
38

American Spectator,
31
,
143

Americans for Prosperity,
252
,
399

Americans with Disabilities Act (1990),
99
,
445

Ampad,
368

Anderson, John,
71
,
84

Angle, Sharron,
321

anticommunism,
32
,
34
–35,
39
,
40
,
51
,
72
,
73
,
75
,
96
,
109
,
163
,
253
,
254
,
261
–62,
445
,
464

“Anti-Porkulus Protest, The,”
298

anti-Semitism,
40
,
47

antiwar movement,
72
–73,
341

Apple, R. W., Jr.,
185
,
486
n

approval ratings,
142
,
145
–46,
158
–59,
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–200,
211
,
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,
223
,
252
,
289
,
292
,
312
,
396
–97,
452

Arabs,
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Ariens, Chris,
489
n

Arizona,
55
,
70
,
138
,
215
,
360
,
369
,
391

Arkansas,
98
,
125
,
258
,
276
,
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,
380
,
391
,
404
,
467

Armet, Elizabeth,
485
n

Armey, Dick,
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,
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,
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–54,
171
,
229
,
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,
482
n

arms control,
33
,
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Ashbrook, John,
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–74

Ashcroft, John,
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Asian Americans,
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,
25
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,
279
,
380
,
383
,
393
,
437
,
447
,
457

Assad, Bashar al-,
398

assault weapons ban,
389

Associated Press,
343

Atlanta Journal,
150

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand),
373

Atlas Society,
373

Atwater, Lee,
94
–98,
100
,
105
,
482
n

Audacity of Hope, The
(Obama),
267
–68

Aurora, Colo. shootings (2012),
387

auto industry,
296
,
358
,
368

Avlon, John,
493
n

Axelrod, David,
119
,
252
,
294
–95,
357
,
370
,
376
,
377
,
491
n,
492
n,
495
n,
496
n

“axis of evil,”
13

Ayers, Bill,
285

Ayotte, Kelly,
317
,
318
,
391

Ayres, Whit,
36
,
457
–58,
477
n,
500
n

Bachmann, Michele,
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,
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,
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,
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,
350

Bacon, Perry, Jr.,
324
–25,
494
n

Bai, Matt,
378

Bailey, Josiah,
45

Bain Capital,
356
–57,
359
,
367
–68

Baker, Howard,
80
,
273

Baker, James A., III,
37
,
92
,
95
,
99

Ball, Molly,
402
,
477
n,
497
n

Balls, Ed,
500
n

Baltimore, Md.,
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–38

Balz, Dan,
183
,
275
,
278
,
281
,
283
,
367
,
375
,
485
n,
491
n,
492
n,
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n,
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n

bank bailout,
225
–28,
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–34,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Baptists,
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Barabak, Mark Z.,
487
n

Barbour, Haley,
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–30,
32
,
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Barksdale Air Force Base,
197

Barnes, Fred,
215
–16,
231
,
244
,
488
n

Barnes, J. A.,
485
n

Barnett, Jim,
277

Barone, Michael,
244
,
492
n

Barr, Andy,
492
n,
493
n

Barreto, Matt A.,
239
,
489
n

Barro, Josh,
420

Bartlett, Bruce,
422
,
498
n

Battle, The: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future
(Brooks),
427

Baucus, Max,
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,
304
,
316
,
391

Bauer, Gary,
467

Bayh, Birch,
83

Beat Generation,
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Beck, Glenn,
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,
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,
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,
303
,
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Beckel, Michael,
495
n

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
(Perlstein),
39

Begich, Mark,
391

Beinart, Peter,
33
,
479
n,
498
n

Beirut Marine barracks bombing (1983),
32

Believer
(Axelrod),
357

Bell, Jeffrey,
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–72,
73
,
481
n

Bendavid, Naftali,
494
n

Benen, Steve,
500
n

Benghazi embassy attack (2012),
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–400

Benjamin, Matthew,
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n

Bennet, James,
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n

Bennett, Barry,
356
–57

Bennett, Robert,
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,
321
,
322
,
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Bennett, William J.,
120
,
146
–47,
165
,
328
,
484
n

“Be Open-Handed Toward Your Brothers” (Brooks),
427

Berenson, Bradford,
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–71,
491
n

Berger, Peter L.,
162
–63,
417
,
484
n

Berman, Matt,
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n

Berry, Jeffrey M.,
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–11,
493
n

Bible,
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,
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Biden, Joe,
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–74,
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,
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,
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,
378
,
386
,
451

Big Show, The,
149

bin Laden, Osama,
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,
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,
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birth control,
19
–20

Biswas, K.,
478
n

Bittersweet Farm,
334
,
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Black Liberation Theology,
269

Black Lives Matter,
437

Black Power,
269

Blackwell, Ken,
390

Blair, Tony,
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,
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,
153
,
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,
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Blitzer, Wolf,
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n

block grants,
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,
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Blood Feud,
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Bloomberg, Michael,
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Bloomberg News,
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Bloomingdale, Alfred,
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,
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“blue wall,”
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–39

Blumenthal, Mark,
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n

Bob Jones University,
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–85,
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Boca Raton, La.,
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Boehner, John,
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,
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,
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–34,
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–3,
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,
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,
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,
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–32,
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,
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,
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,
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–95,
398
,
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,
401
,
412
,
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,
459
–60,
501
n

Boiling Mad
(Zernike),
238

Boles, Corey,
497
n

Bolton, John,
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,
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bond market,
110
,
112
,
217

Booker, Cory,
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Book of Virtues, The
(Bennett),
146

Borean, Richard,
478
n

Bork, Robert,
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Borosage, Robert,
103
,
105

Bositis, David,
258

Bosman, Julie,
491
n

Bowles, Erskine,
315

Bozell, L. Brent, Jr.,
50
,
51

Bozell, L. Brent, III,
401

Bradley, Bill,
92

Brady, David W.,
139
,
483
n

Brady, John,
482
n

Braley, Bruce,
404

Branch Davidians,
130

Brat, David,
403

Breaux, John,
194

Breitbart,
244

Brennan, Mary C.,
41
,
477
n

Bretton Woods agreement (1944),
72

Bricker, John,
109

Brill, Steven,
149

Brock, David,
483
n

Brooke, Edward W.,
62
–63,
76
,
480
n

Brooks, Arthur C.,
427
,
499
n

Brooks, David,
423
–24

Broussard, James H.,
481
n

Brown, David,
488
n

Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,”
76

Brown, Scott,
311
,
312
–16,
339
,
381
,
406
–7

Brownback, Sam,
328

Brownstein, Ronald,
120
,
138
–39,
496
n

Brown v. Board of Education,
52
,
256

Brulte, Jim,
457
,
458

Bruni, Frank,
485
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Brunner, John,
361
,
362

Buchanan, Patrick J.,
68
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
75
,
76
,
103
,
104
,
106
,
116
,
133
–34,
219
,
288
,
480
n

Buck, Ken,
321

Buckley, Christopher,
286

Buckley, James,
77

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
32
,
39
–40,
41
,
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–48,
50
,
54
,
68
,
73
,
74
,
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,
78
,
241
,
253
,
286
,
373
,
425
,
462
,
463
,
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,
467
,
477
n,
479
n,
480
n,
481
n

budget, federal,
17
,
30
,
80
–81,
88
–90,
91
,
100
–113,
120
–23,
126
–29,
131
,
135
,
140
–42,
158
,
183
,
186
,
189
,
195
,
222
–27,
259
,
294
,
311
–15,
324
–33,
350
,
352
,
359
,
369
,
374
,
378
,
386
,
396
,
399
,
401
,
409
–10,
429
,
439

Buffett, Warren,
375

Bumiller, Elisabeth,
488
n

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.,
313

Burke, Edmund,
14
,
25
,
417
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424
,
443
,
447
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,
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,
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–64,
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,
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