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because it really predicts the landscape of where we are now with this election. it s so timely. take me through the process of windows all formed in your head. guess i think i did get lucky with the timing. somebody said i should buy a powerball ticket because i could see the future is hard to say when you start writing a book. you write a proposal or so when you turn in that manuscript? i would say i ve years ago i started writing comma which led me to this book and it was around this time the sarah palin went rogue and i had initially thought i like sarah palin and after the way she kind of got radicalized and changed i started seeing candidates like christine o donnell and sharon engel who were saying things that i felt uncomfortable with as a conservative. they were playing identity politics. they were casting themselves as the victim playing the victim card which struck me as a conservative and it was in a populist tone. that got me writing about this topic and ultimate
right mind people of the intellectual history of conservativism. i tell students, you d be surprised to learn that the rock stars at the manhattan cocktail parties used to be conservative. talk about that rich history. there was a time not that long ago when the knock against conservatives was that they were too intellectual. there were two academic who couldn t appeal to the common man. it s completely the opposite today. a lot of people think the intellectual father of conservative is aristotle which puts conservatism in very good intellectual company, but certainly the modern leader or the modern conservative is edmund burke, the british parliamentarian who famously was very supportive of the american cause against the french revolution. this is a guy who had been incredibly influential and if you look at the sort of battle that he had against thomas paine, you have the birth of the right and left even to this day. burke believed in preserving tradition and western servo
head. guest: it got lucky with the timing. somebody said i should buy a powerball ticket because i can see the future. when do you start writing black? when you write the proposal or turn in the manuscript? i would say five years ago i start writing columns and around the time sarah palin went rogue. i thought after the race she got radicalized and changed, and i started seeing candidates like christine o donnell and sharon anle saying thing is felt uncomfortable with as a conservative. they were casting themselves as a victim, playing the victim card, which struck me as unconservative, and it was short of a populist tone that got me writing about the topic, and the week my book comes out, sarah palin endorses donald trump. i couldn t have planned that. amazing time. let get back to back lex, firstd poem of the intellectual history of conservatism. i know when i go to colleges i tell students, you d be surprised to learn that the rock stars that the manhattan cometail par
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