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Joe Scarborough - ex - Republican congressman and the always insightful coordinator of MSNBC's Day Joe - requires a nuanced and unexpected go through the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Get together. Dominant in nation-wide politics for forty years consuming the traditional but pragmatic management of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, the GOP, Scarborough argues, is in a self-inflicted eclipse. The only way forward? Restore the principled realism of the giants who led the party to greatness. In the aftermath of Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide, the Republican Get together were on the verge of permanent irrelevance. LBJ's Great Modern culture was institutionalizing sweeping liberal reforms, and america had a growing, prosperous overall economy. Yet immediately everything modified, and another four decades would see an unprecedented era of Republican ascendancy. What occurred? In The Right Route, Joe Scarborough appears back in time to discern how Republicans once dominated American open public life. From Eisenhower's refusal to let "the perfect be the foe of the good" to Reagan's charismatic but resolutely useful genius, Scarborough shows how principled pragmatism, coupled with a committed action to core traditional values, resulted in victory after success. Now, however, political incalcitrance is intimidating to turn a once-mighty party into a permanent minority.
