Welcome to the carnegie and almond for international peace. I am 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. I see a couple of things about the book in the moment but before i do, i want to extend on your behalf and mind a warm welcome to colin himself and to our two distinguished commentators, danny pletka and Richard Fontaine. As you know colin is a professor at the start school of policy and government at George Mason University read and is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute, our neighbor next door literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics. And this book is trademark colin dueck. 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 of idea
This is the daily rundown. Lets get right to my first reads of the morning. Get ready for a three and a half month sprint to the finish. The 2014 midterms are just 99 days away. Voters nationwide will cast ballots in 36 senate races, 36 contests for governor and pick their representatives. In all 435 house districts. One thing thats striking so far, we still dont know for sure what this election will be about. Will republicans net six seats and win 2014s big prize, control of the u. S. Senate . For democrats, avoiding a gop wave and a total disaster might actually represent a small victory. Can democrats offset potential losses at the federal level by picking off some vulnerable republican governors . Given gop gains over the last few cycles it was always see as an advantage prospect but democrats have their own vulnerable incumbent governors to defend. Both the democrats and the republicans legitimately believe they are going to pick up a few seats in november. Somebody has got to be
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