Why the Right Went Wrong: ConservatismFrom Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond (100 page)

conservative opposition to,
5
,
7
,
12
–13,
16
,
40
,
41
,
64
,
68
,
70
,
103
,
105
,
131
,
155
–56,
165
–66,
175
,
185
,
253
,
254
–55,
313
,
324
–25,
347
,
363
,
439
,
440
,
442
,
447
,
450

media outlets of,
20
,
75
,
241
,
242
,
246
,
346

neo-,
414

“sixties values” of,
7
–9,
18
,
87
,
155
–56,
171
,
235
,
251
,
262
,
286
,
337
–38,
442

social agenda of,
7
–9,
70
,
363
,
429
,
439
,
440

Liberal Party,
47
,
77

libertarianism,
35
,
46
,
54
,
90
,
97
,
122
–23,
161
–62,
177
,
223
,
250
–54,
259
,
308
,
321
,
353
,
357
,
381
,
424
–25,
441
,
463
,
464
,
467

Libertarian Party,
250
,
381

Libertarian Review,
250
–51

Libya,
399
–400

Lieberman, Evelyn,
143

Lieberman, Joe,
203
,
205
,
283

Lieu, Ted,
457

Life Line,
241

Life Line Foundation,
41

Limbaugh, Rush,
148
,
202
,
218
,
241
,
281
–82,
298
,
317
,
487
n

Lincoln, Abraham,
19
,
44
,
49
,
78
,
203
–4,
372
,
388
,
424
,
446
,
462

Lindsay, John V.,
72
,
77

Lipset, Seymour Martin,
239

literacy rates,
170

literacy tests,
260

Livingston, Bob,
154
–55

Lizza, Ryan,
334
,
494
n

Long, Huey,
216
,
336

Los Angeles County,
82
–83

Los Angeles Times,
74
,
115
,
213
,
226

Losing Ground
(Murray),
423

Loudest Voice in the Room, The
(Sherman),
242

Louisiana,
56
,
258
,
380
,
391
,
404
,
465

Lowenstein, Al,
41

Lowndes, Joseph E.,
46
–47,
480
n

Lowry, Rich,
9
,
403
,
478
n,
497
n

Lubell, Samuel,
69
,
118
,
480
n

Lugar, Richard,
360
–61

Luntz, Frank,
288
–89,
302

Luo, Michael,
492
n

M2E2 (Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Environment),
127
–28,
446

McCain, John,
180
,
184
,
185
,
190
,
203
,
272
–90,
299
–300,
306
,
314
,
341
,
381
,
382
,
391
,
392
–93,
418
,
421
,
486
n

McCain-Feingold Act (2002),
274

McCarthy, Eugene,
341

McCarthy, Joseph,
262

McCarthy, Kevin,
19
,
233
,
288
–89,
293
,
327
,
489
n

McCarthyism,
39
,
72
,
109
,
261
–62

McCaskill, Claire,
361
,
362

McClatchy-Marist poll,
235

McCloskey, Paul “Pete,”
74

McConnell, Mitch,
289
,
295
,
362
,
386
,
396
,
401
,
404
,
411
–12

McDaniel, Chris,
27
–30,
37
,
401
,
478
n

McDougal, James,
483
n

McFarland, Ernest,
215

MacGillis, Alec,
289

McGirr, Lisa,
477
n

McGovern, George,
73
,
74
,
83
,
104
,
107
,
180
,
255
,
312

McInturff, Bill,
283

McKinnon, John D.,
499
n

McManus, Doyle,
483
n

Macmillan, Harold,
463

McVeigh, Timothy,
129
–32

Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right
(Sandbrook),
238

Maddow, Rachel,
87
–88,
149
,
481
n

Madison, James,
388
,
390

Madison, Lucy,
494
n,
496
n

“madman theory,”
326
,
330

Magliocca, Gerald,
479
n

Magnuson, Warren,
83

Maine,
55
,
83
,
391
,
407

Majority PAC,
362

Mak, Tim,
500
n

“Make Life Work” (Cantor),
433

“makers” and “takers” ideology,
373
–74,
375
,
388
,
426
–28,
459
,
460
–61

“Making of America, The,”
43

Making of the President
series (White),
59

Malzberg, Steve,
489
n

Manchin, Joe,
389
,
391

Mandelson, Peter,
112

Mann, Thomas,
6
,
13
,
477
n,
478
n

Maranto, Robert,
486
n

Marchi, John,
77

marijuana,
109

Marion, Ind.,
368

Marlowe, Beth,
482
n

Martella, Ashley,
494
n

Martha’s Vineyard,
84

Martin, Isaac William,
481
n

Martin, Jonathan,
493
n

Martinez, Mel,
281

Marxism,
53
,
69
,
301
–2,
303
,
337
,
355
,
459

Maryland,
407

Massachusetts,
84
,
213
,
273
,
275
,
276
,
311
,
334
,
377
,
407
,
419
,
421
,
433

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
213

Massey, Raymond,
58

Mathias, Charles “Mac,”
80
,
416

Matthews, Chris,
68
,
92
,
480
n

Mauro, Garry,
169
–70,
171

Maxey, Glen,
171

Mayer, Jane,
252
,
490
n

Meckler, Laura,
501
n

Medicaid,
126
,
127
–28,
141
,
176
,
327
,
335
,
388
,
394
,
434
,
446

medical savings accounts,
129
,
194

Medicare,
3
,
6
,
12
,
24
,
53
,
55
,
85
,
88
,
100
,
103
–4,
122
,
126
,
127
–28,
129
,
141
,
142
,
192
–95,
222
,
224
,
225
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229
,
239
,
259
,
304
,
310
,
314
–15,
316
,
324
,
325
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327
,
335
,
369
,
378
,
388
,
393
,
434
,
446
,
447

Medicare Modernization Act (2003),
192
–95

Meese, Edwin, III,
37

Meet the Press,
302
–3

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
435

Mexico,
25
,
111
,
277
,
320
,
434
,
436
–37

Meyer, Frank,
40
–41,
253
,
363
,
425
,
467

Michigan,
98
,
186
,
267
,
280
,
318
,
320
,
358
,
359
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372
,
380

middle class,
18
,
71
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82
–83,
108
,
110
,
114
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117
,
120
,
124
,
141
,
263
–64,
320
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325
,
337
,
339
–40,
349
,
351
,
354
–59,
363
,
375
–81,
389
,
404
–5,
409
–13,
420
,
429
,
432
,
439
–40,
441
,
454
–55

Middle East,
99
,
221
,
398
,
399
–400,
447
–48

“midnight basketball” programs,
116

Miers, Harriet,
221

Miles, Michael W.,
477
n

military-industrial complex,
463

Millennials,
8
,
219
,
222
,
279
,
382
,
408

Miller, George,
191

Miller, Joe,
321

Miller, Jonathan,
495
n

Miller, Zell,
211
,
487
n

minimum wage,
175
,
243
,
248
,
404
,
409
,
410
,
429

Minnesota,
83
,
207
,
285
,
295

Minnesota, University of,
207

Mishak, Michael J.,
489
n

Mississippi,
27
–30,
52
,
56
,
81
,
256
,
258
,
380
,
401

Missouri,
282
,
361
–62,
367

Mitchell, Alison,
484
n

Modern Republicans,
16
,
22
–23,
39
,
49
–50,
65
,
67
–68,
102
,
103
,
156
,
445
,
450
,
462
–68

Mohr, Charles,
480
n

Mondale, Walter,
208
,
429

Montana,
138
,
382
,
391
,
404

Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott,
262

Montgomery, Lori,
488
n

Montopoli, Brian,
202
–3,
487
n

Moore, David W.,
487
n

Moore, Stephen,
217
,
249
–50,
488
n

Morella, Connie,
78

Morin, Richard,
482
n

Mormons,
279
,
280
,
334
,
359
,
360

Morning Joe,
245

Morris, Dick,
124
,
127
,
131
–32,
136
,
244
,
489
n

mortgages,
233
,
297
,
316
,
330

Mother Jones,
374

Mourdock, Richard,
360
–61,
362
,
363
,
381

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
72
,
137
,
445

MSNBC,
148
–49,
242
–43,
245
,
308

Mufson, Steven,
490
n

Mulvaney, Mick,
214
,
224
,
231
,
304
–5,
308
–12,
321

Murkowski, Lisa,
321

Murray, Charles,
371
,
423
,
496
n,
498
n