The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right is Max Boot’s elegy of his departure from the Republican Party and conservative politics. This is the route many more conservatives should have taken with the rise of Trump and Trumpism. Their duty was to put country before party and their own narrow self-interests. Most did not. Boot did, and he is to be commended for doing so and telling his story.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this book is Boot’s post-mortem on contemporary conservatism. He sees, for the first time in his life, that conservatism has from the very beginning had been built on a foundation of nativism, misogyny, racism (all the bad-isms). Therefore, Trump is not an anomaly from the conservative movement and the Republican Party, but produced by it and its natural progression.
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