“Never has a party so quickly or so easily abandoned its principles as Sense of how hollow Republicanism proved to be when Trump arrived. “almost impossible to believe.” Mostly, though, Flake tries to make That Trump’s ongoing “affection for authoritarians and strongmen” was Presidential election, as Trump turned to the likes of Michael Flynn (“aĬonspiracy theorist”) for foreign-policy advice, and remembers thinking
(Flake: “ Quel scandale!”) He describes watching, during last year’s He had been “seen in the company of globalists in Paris, France.” The senator recalls a right-wing blog once reporting that One way to understand Flake’s experience is as a set of adventures amid Surveying the anger that has consumed conservatism in recent years. “These are the spasms of a dying party,” Flake writes, Goldwater-“ Conscience of a Conservative.” The book attempts to reckon with what conservatism means in the age of Donald Trump, and its power comes from Flake’s probing of his party’s complicity in Trump’s ascendance. Has just published a remarkably forceful book, titled-in a nod to Barry
Jeff Flake is a relatively anonymous Republican senator from Arizona who
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