EP. 033 - Is This the End of the Conservative Era?

About this episode

Dan McCarthy discusses whether Donald Trump signifies the end of the conservative era or reveals deeper truths about conservatism's history.

Has Donald Trump brought the conservative era to an end, or has he exposed something deeper about what conservatism has been for the past eighty years? Dan McCarthy responds to a recent argument that Trump marks a break with the Reagan, Buckley, and Goldwater tradition. Instead, Dan argues that much of modern conservatism lived in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, defined more by opposition than by a full vision of conservative. This episode explores how the New Deal res...

People in this episode

Host: Dan McCarthy

Topics covered

• conservatism
• Donald Trump
• New Deal
• political tradition
• Reagan
• Buckley
• Goldwater

Keywords

• conservatism
• Donald Trump
• New Deal
• political tradition
• Reagan
• Buckley
• Goldwater

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reagan, Buckley, Goldwater, New Deal

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