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Conservative votes, liberal victories: Why the right has failed Hardcover – January 1, 1975

by Patrick J Buchanan (Author)
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Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed by Patrick J Buchanan 1975 Hardcover
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  1. Print length
    184 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Quadrangle/New York Times Book
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1975
  5. ISBN-10
    0812905822
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0812905823
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quadrangle/New York Times Book; First Edition (January 1, 1975)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812905822
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812905823
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
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DVD Man
5.0 out of 5 stars Just Pat!
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2022
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Been collecting his books. Great history.
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Eric Mayforth
5.0 out of 5 stars Will Government Ever Actually Shrink?
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015
Over the last century, government has grown and grown despite several conservative wins at the ballot box in presidential and congressional elections. To name one conspicuous example, the not-exactly-vital Department of Energy survived the election of Mr. Conservative, Ronald Reagan, in 1980. On many other occasions, federal courts have overturned democratically established policies implemented at the ballot box.

In his 1975 volume "Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories," pundit Pat Buchanan examined this phenomenon of a steadily growing state as time goes on no matter who wins elections. The author worked in the Nixon White House and recalls why government did not shrink and the bureaucracy was not tamed following each of Nixon's election victories.

Much of the blame for government's size today has been the hostility on the part of many toward our capitalist system that has revolutionized living standards and brought untold prosperity in the two and a quarter centuries following its acceptance toward the end of the eighteenth century. Intellectuals in particular dislike free markets, and Buchanan offers his opinion as to why they do, even though, as he rightly asserts about our world, "as a general rule, the less capitalist the country the less prosperous the people."

Buchanan rightly notes that special interests, the media, the bureaucracy, and renegade courts are several of the main reasons why government remains at such suffocating levels, and examines the role of each. The author wrongly thought that the media would never get better. He did not foresee the welcome demise of the so-called Fairness Doctrine and the rise of talk radio and the Internet, which loosened to at least some degree the near-total stranglehold the Left had on the dissemination of information four decades ago.

The volume also looked at how bleak things were in the mid-1970s in a broad range of topics in social, economic, and foreign policy. Government was still much smaller then than now and some of Buchanan's complaints on that score seem quaint here in 2015.

The Republican Party was flat on its back in the aftermath of Watergate and would lose the White House in 1976. Buchanan examined options he thought that the conservative movement might explore for a resurgence--among them a conservative third party, which, then as now, would have been a monumentally bad idea.

One wonders when or even if the American people will ever finally get righteously indignant enough to vastly reduce our Leviathan-sized government that has usurped far too many of our rightful liberties. Many of the themes in "Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories" seem all too familiar today, and the volume is an interesting read as a snapshot of a time that had many similarities to our own.
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M. Frimley
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended only for the high-minded
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 1999
When I heard Pat mention this book in an interview on C-Span, I immediately shuttled myself off to the library. It was published in the aftermath of Watergate, and Pat's tone is understandably disgruntled and defeatist. I'm so tired of the liberal demagogues who label him a racist, anti-semite, or misogynist simply because they know that is the simplest and most spineless way to destroy a person's credibility. For anyone willing to go to the trouble to find this forgotten masterpiece, I swear that he actually refers to the early civil rights leaders as "heroes," and writes that "justice was on their side." How can the extra chromosome left wing explain comments like this, when they would have us believe that Pat Buchanan is satan? I saw nothing in this book that I would deem to be insensitive or xenophobic. But in a society where a guy can lose his job for saying "niggardly" I guess anything can pass for racism now.
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