How The GOP Betrayed The Reagan Revolution To Win Elections

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published February 8, 2016 at 11:33 AM EST

In 1963 Richard Hofstadter published his landmark book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Today, Matt Lewis argues, America's inclination toward simplicity and stupidity is stronger than ever, and its greatest victim is the Republican Party.

His new book is Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots).

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