[laughter] good morning everyone and welcome to the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, im a senior fellow of the endowment and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you to this Book Discussion of colin duecks age of iron. Which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. A couple things about the book in the moment before i do i want to extend on your behalf and mine a warm welcome to cal colin himself as you probably know colin is a professor at the stars School Public iuniversity and and a nonresident fellow at the american and Bryce Institute neighbor next door, literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about medical politics. And this book is trademarked direct, it examines the concept of conservative nationalism, phenomenon that has been brought to public attention conspicuously to the rise of president from. In terms of both the history of ideas and how these ideas have filed manifestation in modern American History. Especially in the debates ab
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Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Carnegie Endowment or international peace. Im ashley tellis, c senior felw at the endowment and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you to this Book Discussion of age of iron which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. I see i will say couple things but the book in a in a t but before i do i want to extend on your behalf in mine a warm welcome to call in himself and our distance, duty, Danielle Pletka and Richard Fontaine. As you probably know, colin is a professor at the start school publicly and government at George Mason University andco is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute, neighbor nextdoor, literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics. And this book is trademark direct. It examines the concept of conservative nationalism, a phenomenon that has been brought to public attention conspicuously through the rise of president trump. In terms of both the history o
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Why did you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on political lobbying. In the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college. The money in politics which we hear a ton about. Executive power. You chose to focus on parties as a linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you to parties . Tell us about the process. Great to be with you again matt. A fun reunion on cspan. So why did i write this book . I wrote this book because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting our country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve that problem. It kind of flowed in an indirect way from my previous book which was about the growth of corporate lobbying. In that book, i had concluded that one way reason they were so powerful was because they wrote a lot of the laws. Because there was not a tremendous amount of expertise. After that book came out, i went talking to folks in and around congress