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August 11, 2008 by John H. Taylor | Filed Under Nixon Administration figures, Richard Nixon 

The LA Times reviews the new book about the GOP by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, who redeem RN as a friend of the working class:

Up through the mid-1960s, they contend, [working class] voters were solid New Deal Democrats. But by the 1960s, rising crime, declining social mores and a drifting Democratic Party left them anxious and alienated.  Into this void stepped clever Richard Nixon, “the architect of a working-class conservatism that would shape American politics for the next quarter century.” Douthat and Salam see Nixon as sincere in wanting to help the working class (he even proposed a guaranteed annual income) but thwarted by ideologues on both sides.



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