Progressive Conservatism; How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party

New York: Encounter Books, 2022. First American Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [10], 254 pages. Figures. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Bill Francis Buckley. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Francis "Frank" Herbert Buckley is a foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law where he has taught since 1989. Before then he was a visiting Olin fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He has also taught at Panthéon-Assas University, Sciences Po in Paris and the McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal. He practiced law for three years in Toronto. He has written on issues including constitutional government, the rule of law, laughter and contract theory, and the rise of Trump. He is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator and other magazines and newspapers. He joined the George Mason School of Law as a professor in 1989, and subsequently was appointed a foundation professor at George Mason. From 1999 to 2010 he was the executive director of the George Mason Law & Economics Center, which offered educational programs for judges. Buckley has published in the Journal of Legal Studies, the Virginia Law Review, the Cornell Law Journal, the International Review of Law and Economics, the UCLA Law Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and many other law reviews. Buckley is a senior editor of The American Spectator, and has also published in The Wall Street Journal, the National Post, The Dorchester Review, and the New Criterion, and has frequently been a guest on NPR, Fox News, and other talk programs. Theodore Roosevelt chapter. After the Democratic Party divided Americans along gender and racial lines, F. H. Buckley argues that the Republican Party can become the natural governing party again by uniting Americans around a return to their roots—championing the common good, liberty, and equality. The Republican Party must return to its roots as a progressive conservative party that defends the American Dream, the idea that whoever you are, you can get ahead and know that your children will have it better than you did. It must show how the Democrats have become the party of inequality and immobility and that they created what structural racism exists through their unjust education, immigration, and job-killing policies. Republicans must seek to drain the swamp by limiting the clout of lobbyists and interest groups. They must also be nationalists, and as American nationalism is defined by the liberal nationalism of our founders, the party must reject the illiberalism of extremists on the Left and Right. As progressives, Republicans must also recognize nationalism's leftward gravitational force and the way in which it demands that the party serve the common good through policies that protect the less fortunate among our countrymen. At a time when the Left asks us to scorn our country, Republicans must also be the conservative party that defends our families, the nobility of American ideals, and the founders' republican virtues. By championing these policies, the Republicans will retain the new voters Trump brought to the GOP as well as those who left the party because of him. And as progressive conservatives, the GOP will become America's natural governing party. "Frank Buckley shakes conservatives by their lapels in this sharp-edged vision for a Republican Party. Progressivism Conservatism does what's needed—disrupt received wisdom with pragmatic, innovative ideas." —Philip K. Howard, author of The Death of Common Sense. "F. H. Buckley shows us how a seeming contradiction can lead to the healing of a fractured country." —Roger L. Simon, award-winning novelist and editor, Epoch Times.