Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Vanguards and the Iron Law of Emulation

For Monday, read Rosenfeld ch. 7 and Drutman ch. 4.

The Great Reordering

New Left and the 1972 D platform: "We must restructure the social, political and economic relationships throughout the entire society in order to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth and power."

The 1972 election:  president by county






Incomplete Reordering : The 1972 election in the House

1972 House Elections in the United States.png

NIXON DID NOT REALLY GIVE A [EXPLETIVE DELETED] ABOUT CONGRESS

Carter and the New South



The third-party flirtation (Rosenfeld 188-190).

In California, the confusing legacy of the American Independent Party.

Present at the creation (Rosenfeld 190-191). Paul Weyrich, who founded Heritage and the Free Congress Foundation, spoke of the moment of inspiration in 1969, when he was a staffer for Senator Gordon Allott (R-CO).

Start at 24:20




Drives home two key points:

Other Publications and Groups
Thanks to primaries, Reagan comes very close to defeating Ford for the 1976 nomination.  The delegate count:
  • Gerald Ford........... 1,187 52.57%
  • Ronald Reagan...... 1,070 47.39%

Not photoshopped:  outgoing vp Nelson Rockefeller expresses his view of the New Right.


Carter years 

(Currently around 7 percent)


"Of a sudden, the GOP has become a party of ideas."  -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1981

Looking ahead to next week: "By the end of the decade, liberal calls abounded for the explicit emulation of conservative organizational innovations from the 1960s and 1970s" (Rosenfeld 248)


No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.