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

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.

"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

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.

Author: F. H. Buckley
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 07/12/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781641772532


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2022

About the Author
Buckley, F. H.: -

Frank Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University's Scalia School of Law. He has also taught at McGill, the Sorbonne (Paris II), and Sciences Po in Paris.

He is a senior editor at the American Spectator and a columnist for the New York Post. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New Criterion, the National Post, and the Telegraph, amongst many others. He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on Morning Joe, Fox, CNN, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Radio France, the CBC, NPR and many others.

His most recent books are Curiosity and Its Twelve Rules for Life, Encounter Books; American Secession, Encounter Books; The Republican Workers Party, Encounter Books, 2018; The Republic of Virtue, Encounter Books, 2017; The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America, Encounter Books, 2016; The Once and Future King, Encounter Books, 2015; The American Illness (ed.), Yale, 2013; Fair Governance, Oxford, 2009; Just Exchange, Routledge, 2005; The Morality of Laughter, Michigan, 2003; and The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (ed.), Duke, 1999.

He was born in Canada and became an American citizen. He lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife, Esther, a German Shepherd, and two cats. His daughter, Sarah, and her husband Nick Mark are MDs who work in pharmaceutical companies.