Red vs. Blue

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - A User’s Guide to Political Bullshit
3. Chapter Two - The Founding Fight
4. Chapter Three - The First Switch-Up
5. Chapter Four - The Slavery Split
6. Chapter Five - The Gilded Age and the Party of Business
7. Chapter Six - The Progressive Era
8. Chapter Seven - FDR and the New Deal Democrats
9. Chapter Eight - The Southern Strategy
10. Chapter Nine - Reagan and the New Right
11. Chapter Ten - Liberals Get Lost
12. Chapter Eleven - When Populism Came Back
13. Chapter Twelve - Liberalism Isn’t Leftism
14. Chapter Thirteen - Conservatism Isn’t Conserving Anything
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Culture War Is a Distraction
16. Chapter Fifteen - Independent in Name Only
17. Chapter Sixteen - This Was Never About Teams

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU HEAR THESE words all the time. Liberal. Conservative. Left. Right. Like they mean something. Like they’re locked-in identities, carved into stone. But if you scratch the surface even a little, it all starts to fall apart. Liberals used to defend free speech. Now they cancel people. Conservatives used to hate big corporations. Now they worship them. Democrats used to be the party of the South. Now the South is Republican. Republicans used to be anti-slavery. Now they’re, well, it’s complicated. Nothing fits. The uniforms don’t match the playbook. The slogans are recycled. The policies are scrambled. And the teams? Half the people wearing the jersey don’t even know what the team...