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Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican president and republican control of Congress, government is bigger and more intrusive than ever. That is not by accident; it is the conscious aim of a new brand of conservatism that seeks, not to reduce the size of government, but to use big government for conservative ends. This book shows how the Bush administration, Congress, and large parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement have abandoned traditional conservative ideals and embraced the idea of big government.
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Tanner (director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute) argues that the current policies of the Republican Party make a mockery of the traditional small government conservatism of Friedrich Hayek and Barry Goldwater and will lead the United States down Hayek's "road to serfdom" as well as lead to electoral disaster for the Republican Party. Largely avoiding the foreign policy of George W. Bush and the curtailments on civil liberties that have accompanied his "War on Terror," he examines and critiques the rise of big government conservatism, finding it to be an admixture of neoconservatism, national greatness conservatism, the religious right, supply-side economics, technophiles exemplified by Newt Gingrich. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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