Jacob Hacker: “We've seen this again and again: when those at the top pull away from the rest of citizens, they become more extreme relative to those citizens. On how plutocracy undermines democratic institutions Coming to rely more and more on these groups that can really mobilize voters, but which the Republicans find increasingly difficult to control.”
So the Republican Party, in response to the conservative dilemma, we say, opens a Pandora's box, if you will. The National Rifle Association, the Christian right, and especially right-wing media. But there's another side that I think we at least had not paid as much attention to in our prior work. "And you can think of the Chamber of Commerce and the Koch Brothers network, or the American Legislative Exchange Council that works at the state level. And so one side of this is the organs of money, the organized money within the party. And this marriage, this bitter brew, has transformed the Republican Party over the last generation, not just under Donald Trump. But what's really distinctive about the American version of right-wing populism is that it’s been married to plutocracy, by which we mean government of, by and for the very rich. Jacob Hacker: “We think of Donald Trump and the Republican Party as becoming a right-wing populist party like right-wing populist parties and other rich democracies. On the GOP’s answer to this dilemma of “plutocratic populism” And this marriage, this bitter brew, has transformed the Republican Party over the last generation." Jacob Hacker, Political Science Professor, Yale University "What's really distinctive about the American version of right-wing populism is that it’s been married to plutocracy, by which we mean government of, by and for the very rich. Trying to figure out how they can stay true to their prior commitments to those at the top, while also appealing to voters who are not winning out in a winner take-all-economy.” And that's placed the Republican Party, the party that's traditionally been more closely allied with business and the affluent, in the same position that conservative parties faced at the dawn of democracy. is occurring not because the franchise is expanding, but because we've become so much more unequal as a society. But the contrary story is the German story, in which the Conservative Party allied with extremists and eventually succumbed to those extreme forces, as we all know. "So we describe how in Britain, the Tories actually came up with a strategy for attracting non-rich voters by playing on patriotism and other not-too-harmful themes. And how these parties dealt with this dilemma, he argued, really shaped the course of democracy. He said that the fate of democracy really hinged on whether conservative parties could resolve a basic dilemma that occurred when they basically had to compete for ordinary working class voters, even though they wanted to stay true to their economic patrons, to the rich within society. And in particular, he focused on conservative parties. But he actually wrote an award-winning book a few years ago on how democracy was established in the West. He's best known for his writing with Steve Levitsky on the threats that democracy faces today.
Jacob Hacker: “We draw this phrase from the political scientist, Daniel Ziblatt’s work. On the “conservative dilemma,” and how it shapes modern American politics
Co-author of " Let Them Eat Tweets: How The Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality." ( Beatty, On Point news analyst. Jacob Hacker, professor of political science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. President Trump ran for office promising to represent the “forgotten American.” Has that happened? Political scientist Jacob Hacker says the opposite has taken place, that under President Trump, the GOP has become the party of plutocrats. This broadcast originally aired on July 24, 2020. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP) This article is more than 2 years old. The parade is hosted by the Michigan Conservative Coalition and Michigan Trump Republicans 2020. Boaters participate in the "Make america Great Again" parade as they celebrate US President Donald Trump's 74th birthday on the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan on June 13, 2020.
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