American Individualism: How a New Era of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Celebration

Margaret Hoover has been a lifelong member of the Republican Celebration. She grew up a self-described “ditto head.” She labored within the White Home for President George W. Bush. As we speak she is a political commentator for Fox Information, the place, as one in all Invoice O’Reilly’s Tradition Warriors, she frequently champions the conservative trigger. She additionally occurs to be the great-granddaughter of the thirty-first president of the US, Herbert Hoover. These impeccable conservative credentials underscore the gravity of her deep-seated issues about the way forward for the Republican Celebration. Her get together, she believes, has fallen dangerously out of step with the rising era of younger Individuals.
   In American Individualism, Margaret Hoover chal-lenges the up-and-coming millennial era to take one other take a look at the Republican Celebration. Though millennials not often establish themselves as Republicans, Hoover contends that these younger women and men who helped elect President Barack Obama are sympathetic to the elemental rules of conservatism. She makes a compelling case for a way the GOP can proper itself and seize the allegiance of this group. She believes that her get together is uniquely positioned to supply options for probably the most urgent issues dealing with America—skyrocketing debt and deficits, crises in schooling and immigration, a conflict towards Islamist supremacy—however that it’s held again by the outsize affect inside the get together of social and spiritual conservatives. 
   American Individualism is Hoover’s name to motion for Republicans to embrace a conservatism that emphasizes particular person freedom each in financial coverage and within the realm of social points with a purpose to enchantment to the brand new era of voters. The Republican Celebration, Hoover asserts, can win the help of the millennials whereas on the identical time remaining devoted to conservative rules. In a journey that’s each political and private, Hoover rediscovers these bedrock conservative values within the writings of her great-grandfather, President Herbert Hoover, who emphasised the important significance of particular person freedom to the American lifestyle and who sought to strike a fragile stability in figuring out the restricted but important position the federal authorities ought to play within the lives of Individuals. 
   Margaret Hoover advocates a conservatism that’s absolutely per the unique impulses of the American conservative motion. It evokes her great-grandfather’s emphasis on the values of civic accountability and repair to others—instincts instilled within the millennial era. She argues that the Republican Celebration as we speak should evolve with a purpose to obtain greatness, and that it may possibly achieve this with out compromising its tried-and-true basic rules. Quite the opposite, these enduring rules, if constantly utilized, will allow the get together to draw a youthful following. 
   An impassioned and persuasive political manifesto grounded in twentieth-century historical past and focused at
probably the most perplexing issues of the twenty-first century, Margaret Hoover’s American Individualism presents provocative concepts not only for reinvigorating the Republican Celebration but additionally for strengthening America within the many years forward.