Why right-wing ideas keep failing

Another book to put on your reading list — The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, by Greg Anrig Jr. (TPMCafe):

The real wonder of the conservative enterprise has been its ability to transform the rudimentary desire of a handful of wealthy families to gut the government into a set of public policy ideas that would help accomplish that goal while sounding appetizing enough to attract large numbers of voters. Rather ingeniously, the simple, easy-to-understand ideas they developed are largely consistent with each other and elegantly link to a broader story line that the conservative movement has effectively sold with remarkable sophistication. That's how the right won the war of ideas. It's also the underlying reason why those ideas keep failing in practice.