The 4 Books You MUST Read To Understand The New GOP

[@richarddesigntheory]

First time watching your content - well done! You’re not just spouting your opinions - you’re doing your homework. You’re doing research giving exposure to worthwhile authors. Keep up the good work! I’ve added several things to my reading list - thx!

[@KevsBookRant]

Thanks man I really appreciate that! 🙏🏾

[@sidbjammin]

I’ll second that. Keep going, man.

[@tangentreverent4821]

Heather Cox Richardson is a historian who specializes in the history of the Republican party, and would be a good addition.

[@MissMeggarz142]

A lot of people choose to turn their cheek to history. We know the old saying and we still see it happen. Thank you for giving a comprehensive guide for us who want to learn. 😊

[@Theomite]

I would add recommendations for: _Reaganland: America's Rightward Turn 1976-1980_ - Rick Perlstein _Playing With Fire: the 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics_ - Lawrence O'Donnell _The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market_ - Nancy Orestes and Erik M. Conway

[@KevsBookRant]

Thanks for the suggestions! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@Theomite]

@@KevsBookRant Yer welcome!

[@beebaritter4952]

I read Jesus and John Wayne by Krisin Kobes Du mez this week and I learned so much. Books help me make sense of this world.❤

[@KevsBookRant]

I legit have that book on my bookshelf right now. I really enjoyed it! What are your thoughts on it?

[@queenvrook]

I appreciate your recommendations, thanks! I second Heather Cox Richardson, especially "To Make Men Free," a really good history of the GOP

[@Will-bn5vv]

I found this video very well done and unbiased, you deserve more subs keep it up

[@KevsBookRant]

Much appreciated!

[@grumpypoetry239]

Another great vid, you deserve so many more subs!!

[@KevsBookRant]

I appreciate that!

[@psikeyhackr6914]

The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

[@kellycasperhanson4426]

👍 I just found your channel and I'm so pleased! I'm subscribed now and looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@KevsBookRant]

Awesome! Thank you! 🙏🏾

[@toddstroger9505]

People are mad with the Democrats not playing the game like Republicans. Win at all costs and fight to win your issue no matter what.

[@ErinWalker-je4vw]

Thank you for uploading this. I love ❤️ it.

[@ashleysharkey7327]

So excited to have found you! I am enjoying your level-headed discussions and book recommendations. Sounds a great informal book club

[@KevsBookRant]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Do you have any book suggestions you think I should review?

[@Pitchfallis]

Really well formulated and organized! I love your clear and informative video description with the book titles and chapters clearly listed-subscribed!

[@KevsBookRant]

Thank you! 🙏🏾

[@MsHellfe]

Not going to lie, when I saw a black man talking about the GOP I expected either a bitter liberal or a half baked tech bro. I'm very happy to see how lucid and sober you were. Looking forward to your other videos!

[@longjohnjimmie1653]

big props for having awareness and being willing to talk about your implicit biases! first step to nullifying them

[@MsHellfe]

@longjohnjimmie1653 I don’t think that’s an example of implicit bias. A) I thought it explicitly. B) it’s not exactly a matter favoring one thing over another, it’s a matter of expecting something based on something else. If anything it’s stereotypical reasoning

[@longjohnjimmie1653]

@mshellfe there is no explicit bias without implicit bias. you don’t end up realizing that you’re biased in a certain way without those biases first being evident in the way your neural patterns are characterized, right? you’re saying you wouldn’t favor what this video actually is over if he was a bitter liberal or tech bro?

[@brudamo9203]

As a black man should you qualify that Abe's Rep party was against slavery for moral reasons or economic etc reasons?

[@HaedynKing]

Thank you so much for the video!

[@KevsBookRant]

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏾

[@michelleriley3613]

Also, Heather Cox Richardson’s To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, and How the South Won the Civil War. Two great clarifying books!

[@KevsBookRant]

You’re the second person in the comments to mention Heather Cox Richard’s book. I’m definitely going to have to check that out!

[@canibezeroun1988]

I like your first two book reviews. It's especially critical for me as I am in that group of Black men who changed sides. I was in the Bernie camp, but I was different in two ways a) always socially conservative b) motivated by domestic politics. Trump is obviously on the other side of that coin, but won me over when he publically called out the disastrous policies of the state department globally, which I at the time, was a detriment to domestic policy. I didn't vote for him until 2020, but I've been happy with some of the decline in American warmongering (until Ukraine)

[@seanzurek3076]

As though I needed more books on my to read list 😭😭😭

[@KevsBookRant]

Right! 😂😂😂

[@jesavius]

I've heard so much about Tim Alberta and now I see why. Definitely going to pick up those two books since they seem like they are a part 1 and part 2 of each other, respectively. Also, picking up Patrick Ruffini's Party of the People. I'm kind of baffled of the multi-cultural coalition the GOP has gained. I have a theory, but would love to learn of Patrick Ruffini's analysis.

[@emsleywyatt3400]

Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson.

[@HerodotusVon]

IMO, one of the most powerful things about our current moment is its illustration of the power of belief and ideology. If you come at politics from a Marxist perspective, you will be wrongly predisposed to believing that material interests primarily drive politics, and that beliefs are ephemeral. But now we live in a moment where educated suburbanites believe in redistributive policy and progressive taxation, while large swaths of the working class oppose it. The silver lining though is I think this means that democrats could unlock massive redistributive change and landslides in the near future, if they can keep educated suburbanites onboard through ideology while finding ways to make inroads with the working class once again. Anyways, as far as the GOP goes, one of the things I find most interesting is the pervasive culture of lying and denial of the truth. How did it get this bad? I mean things were quite bad during Bush’s terms, but since Trump, it’s just normal for everyday people to constantly rationalize bullshit. Whenever something in anyway looks bad for republicans, my trump supporting friends will always give me a million rationalizations. They can never accept a fact. It’s like lying and denial has been spread as a mimetic disease in the party

[@colindingus7756]

Excellent content. Subbed and watching all preceding videos. Full transparency, I voted for Trump in both '20 and '24 elections. I have a strong desire to encourage those around me to view "the other side" as human beings created in the image of God and to treat them as such. I am encouraged to see you have similar goals. I am very concerned about how unsympathetic the right can be toward the concerns of the left. I hope to be able to converse with people of any political position and leave with both parties encouraged and their understanding sharpened. I have learned great things from you in only an hour or so, and hope to learn much more.

[@KevsBookRant]

Thanks man I really appreciate that! 🙏🏾 From what I’ve seen both side seems to be unsympathetic and it’s really sad. I’ve had a lot of success talking to people who think drastically different from me politically. The people in my friend groups range from basically socialist all the way to hardcore conservative and I’ve grown all the more for it.

[@rjohnson1690]

I don’t think Trumpism is going to survive Trump.

[@sidbjammin]

Your mouth to God’s ear.

[@reading1713]

I used to feel that way too.I no longer do

[@OneWingedNote]

I want to leave a comment that says more than "Thanks, these seem really informative," but it's too early and I haven't had my coffee yet, so this rubbish is all you get, sorry. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

[@KevsBookRant]

😂😂😂 I appreciate the effort!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

You clearly come at this from an “outside” perspective on the party. That’s okay, most members of the party naturally wouldn’t know everything about how things came to be as they are either, but your shortcomings in understanding are at least seemingly apparent. That is, if you’re being genuine. I hope you are. - So-called “Us versus them” politics is all of politics. From left to right. Economic and social. That’s your politics. It’s a dumb shallow line used to attack ”the other” in politics, not so ironically or cluelessly. The 1984 image you show is in very bad taste. The mainstream media double think and flip-flopping along with the “vote blue no matter who” crowds puts any analogy on Trump or the GOP to shame. - Still claiming in 2024 that Trump has no consistent policies is just asinine and absurd. He’s been voicing his positions on trade with China and others, taxes, borders, more hands off foreign policy in a post-Cold War world, American jobs, and more self-sufficiency when it comes to vital industries since the late 1980s and 1990s. - You need to learn more about the Republican party in Abraham Lincoln’s time. It could never just get elected based on anti-slavery positions which ranged from abolition to halting its expansion to just trying to keep the balance between the states. The vital slavery issue was the main reason it came into existence though, that is true. The Republican Party, since it’s founding embraced the American system of Henry Clay, being pro-industry, pro-big and small business, pro-assistance for settlers across the American West, tariffs, and federally assisted funding of infrastructure projects to connect the states for further economic development and interdependence. All while following a George Washington inspired unentangled foreign policy. - The movement is bigger than Trump. But without him, the Establishment would’ve kept their stranglehold on the various fractions that make up the Republican base too much of the same degree for years to come. For that alone, he is and will remain a hero to many. Including myself. - Economic questions are vital. Often prominent for obvious reasons. However, at the same time, the social issues will always be vital. They must remain prominent for the simple fact that they are prominent. From the origin of Morality, the value of human life, Natural Law, Marriage, Family, societal organization, to transgenderism, towards ideological pushes towards trans-humanism, These are matters that make or break both the individual and Civilization. - One also needs to understand the effects WW1, the aftermath, the New Deal political machine, WW2, The Cold War compromises forged into the three legged footstool of so-called “conservatism,” the Activist Supreme Courts, Liberalism versus Evangelicalism versus Catholic versus other forms of Christianity in America, the results of consistent short-term compromise to the point of institutional capture in higher educational and cultural institutions, The Austrian School, Libertarianism as a new but different step built from Liberalism compared to Leftism, the end of The Cold War, Pat Buchanan, paleo-conservatism versus neoconservatism and neoliberalism versus the National Populist flux, demographic shifts combined with identity politics on the left, the global and domestic war on terror, and more all had on the GOP. Or more accurately, those who made up its various factions over the decades. - I think that’s all I’ll have to say for now. The books mentioned: - Tim Alberta, American Carnage, book lecture - Geoffrey Kabaservice, Rule and Ruin, book lecture - Patrick Ruffini, Party of the People, book lecture - Lewis L. Gould, Grand Old Party, book lecture

[@KevsBookRant]

I appreciate the comment boss! Which book do you plan on checking out?

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@KevsBookRant definitely not Tim Alberta. Lewis L. Gould sounds interesting to me.

[@sidbjammin]

That’s a lot to chew on, Robert. Much appreciated view of events from a perspective that’s more conservative than mine, which I crave in order to broaden my own understanding of history in my lifetime. I can’t say I accept or reject everything you put forward here, but it does give me a good list of things to watch for in my reading of history and politics. Many thanks.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@sidbjammin thank you. I appreciate your comment.