No Conscience?
Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle, by Jeff Flake, New York: Random House, 2017, 160 pages, hardcover.
If you were considering buying Senator Jeff Flake’s book Conscience of a Conservative about the evils of President Donald Trump and the glory of Flake’s alleged “conservative principles,” don’t waste your money. The disjointed, highly repetitive screed reads like a stale list of establishment talking points mixed in with a massive dose of self-glorification, sprinkled liberally with dishonesty and attacks against all who disagree with him — especially Trump. In short, it is worse than a waste of time and money, and it has virtually no redeeming qualities.
So, you may ask, why is The New American reviewing the book? Back in the ’60s William F. Buckley used National Review to “purge” the conservative movement of the allegedly bad John Birch Society, which publishes this magazine. Now, Senator Flake and his allies in the establishment media are hoping this book will serve a similar role, supposedly rescuing conservatism from the terrible Trump, who, Flake warns, “has brought the values of [JBS founder] Robert Welch into the West Wing.” Flake even borrowed the title of Barry Goldwater’s famous 1964 book to lend credibility to his efforts.
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