United Auto Workers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Vance, J. D.
Van Susteren, Greta
Vavreck, Lynn
voter ID laws
voter suppression
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Walker, Scott
Wallace, George
War on Poverty
Warren, Elizabeth
Warren, Rick
Waters, Maxine
Weingarten, Randi
welfare reform
“welfare state”
Whigs
white nationalism
Whitmer, Gretchen
Williamson, Vanessa
Wilson, James Q.
Wilson, Joe
Wilson, Pete
Wilson, Woodrow
Winthrop, Scott
Women’s Marches
Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF)
Woodward, Bob
working class
civil-rights era survey of working poor
and Hillbilly Elegy (Vance)
and immigration
recent history of
and work requirements for social programs
work requirements
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Wright, Jeremiah
Zandi, Mark
Zdunkewicz, Nancy
ALSO BY STANLEY B. GREENBERG
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The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It
The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics
Middle Class Dreams: Building the New American Majority
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Race and State in Capitalist Development: Comparative Perspectives
Politics and Poverty: Modernization and Response in Five Poor Neighborhoods
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STANLEY B. GREENBERG is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! and the polling adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs across the globe. He lives in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT). You can sign up for email updates here.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
1. The New America
2. The GOP Counterrevolution Against the New America
3. The Trump GOP Battle Against Multiculturalism
4. The Tea Party–Trump Decade
5. President Trump’s GOP in Battle
6. The New America Strikes Back
7. Is This All They Have to Offer Working People?
8. How Did Democrats Let Donald Trump Win?
9. After the Crash
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Also By Stanley B. Greenberg
About the Author
Copyright
First published in the United States by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of
St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
RIP GOP. Copyright © 2019 by Stanley B. Greenberg. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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Names: Greenberg, Stanley B., 1945– author.
Title: RIP GOP: how the new America is dooming the Republicans / Stanley B. Greenberg.
Other titles: How the new America is dooming the Republicans
Description: First edition. | New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019021289 | ISBN 9781250311757 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250311764 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Republican Party (U.S.: 1854–) | Political culture—United States. | United States—Politics and government—2009–2017. | United States—Politics and government—2017–
Classification: LCC JK2356 .G728 2019 | DDC 324.2734—dc23
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