Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. He traces the course of Bush’s family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence “in the back corridors” of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls “the politics of deceit in the House of Bush,” accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the “Southern Strategy” that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation. He’s not only a lifelong Republican, he’s also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party’s dominance of presidential politics. Bush and accuses the president of attempting to establish a family dynasty better suited to royalist England than to democratic America.īut Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He attacks the “smug conservatism” of George W. He bemoans the unprecedented influence that private corporations hold over public institutions. He rails against the growing inequality of wealth in America. Listening to Kevin Phillips talk about politics, it’s easy to mistake him for a populist firebrand from the 1890s.
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