As the 2016 election campaign attests the grand old party once moderate and even magnanimous has fallen into a prison of its own making when it comes to presidential politics after the debacle of the george w bush presidency and the rout of the romney candidacy republicans said they must broaden their base become more inclusive and return to the warmth of reagan idealism. The republican party has become ideologically extreme contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime scornful of compromise unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts evidence and science and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition all but declaring war on the government. John white a well established authority on american politics and political parties has written a first rate analysis of the republican partys current struggle to find a political ideology that is consistent with both its historic role as a party of limited national government and the need to offer solutions to pressing economic and social . What happened to the republican party and what it means for american presidential politics kindle edition by white john kenneth download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading what happened to the republican party and what it means for american presidential politics. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more