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A Party Inverted - by Bill Bradley
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 30, 2005 12:18pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Before deciding what Democrats should do now, it's important to see what Republicans have done right over many years. When the Goldwater Republicans lost in 1964, they didn't try to become Democrats. They tried to figure out how to make their own ideas more appealing to the voters. As part of this effort, they turned to Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and soon to become a member of the United States Supreme Court. In 1971 he wrote a landmark memo for the United States Chamber of Commerce in which he advocated a sweeping, coordinated and long-term effort to spread conservative ideas on college campuses, in academic journals and in the news media.
To further the party's ideological and political goals, Republicans in the 1970's and 1980's built a comprehensive structure based on Powell's blueprint. Visualize that structure as a pyramid. |
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