how did a conservative movement go from being run by william f. buckley to sean hannity? how did it go from ronald reagan the donald trump? how didru we go from edinburgh o and culture? what happened to us that led up tole that? this of course is a big question i had after the election. look about and go what just happened? what did we miss? what were the things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i i didn't? ? with the 2016? guest: i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. he came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over this otherwise healthy movement, but ultimately that's not a sustainable thesis. this was a dysfunction in the conservative movement and the republican party with pre-existing condition. he's a symptom and it's been a long time coming and i tried to go back and what were those moments, what were the signposts? was it when the republicans adopted as the seven strategy or newt gingrich weapon eyes politics? the moment that they thought sarah palin should be the vice presidential nominee? was a weird the conservative

his name and the other guy and you know what noam chomsky versus william you know famous the big thinkers and buckley buckley william f. buckley they could have debates and it wasn't like shrieking from one effort chamber to the other like you turn on m.s.n. we see in their shrieking about you know to their base and fox is shrieking to their base and like that and there's no i conversation that a scene between them. is so weird thing to watch. but you know hopefully we provide this platform with all sorts of heterodox economists and thinkers and outside the mainstream we could cover more mainstream people if we wanted but you know they're always on one of these networks we go see them elsewhere but i don't think that your thinking is dangerous. society run by dictators like you have america so you know i think those are well those in there are just charity the original thought is considered an act of trip i can i'm going to go get some more pumpkin pie we need more pumpkin pie i look that up george orwell something about. tearing. ok well that's going to do it for the show the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stac

one of the stories i tell of the book is william f. buckley, jr., the godfather of the modern conservative movement who understood if it would ever be taken it had to get rid of the biggest and the crackpots and though the attacks and expel the john birch society to make it clear the kkk was beyond the pale he didn't do that because if you want to be taken seriously you need to drain your own fever swamp and was successful to push them to the margin they never went away because they may become back in 2016 that there was no william f. buckley, jr. who had that authority to stop in fact, we saw the rise of the empowerment of those that i will convince -- confessed i thought we marginalize them that the e drought at the end of the bar was there. but it turns out that was a huge mistake to ignore the existence and to push back so i tried to go back to look at the key moments in there is no definitive a answer was that when sarah nominated? before that? when you gingrich weapon is politics? richard nixon adopted the southern strategy? more recentl

how did the conservative movement go from william f. buckley to ann coulter next how do we go from ronald reagan to donald trump? how do you go from edmund burke to sean hannity? what happened to us? and, of course, one of the key things when i started writing the book was to figure out what just happened to us. was this a one-off? was a one-time thing? wasn't something we missed in the conservative movement? did donald trump just parachute in and take over an otherwise healthy movement? or was something else going on? i concluded reluctantly, very reluctantly, that donald trump is not merely a cause. he certainly makes things worse but is also a symptom. the dysfunction was a pre-existing condition which will also not be covered by republican health care plans. [laughing] what we've also learned, and you think this is the shock that a lot of us are experiencing, and i have described it, and debate on our politics with different reactions. for me 2015-2016 was a soul crushing, disillusioning slog as i watched this habit. i think was a shock to

i'm sure most of you know, regnery launched many superstar conservative authors starting with william f. buckley and russell kirk, extending to many of our favorites today whether that's ann coulter, david limbaugh, michelle malkin, mark steyn, sebastian gorka, many, many more. we now publish 50 books a year including current events, political thought, history, faith, fiction, even kids' books. we have several of the, of our wonderful authors here tonight including ann coulter and david limbaugh and sebastian gorka, rahimkassan. thank you very much. also want to give a special welcome to several other regnery authors who are here. second lady karen pence is here, she's a newly-signed regnery author. ed klein is here, thank you, ed. multiple best selling books. david horowitz is here. i think congressman ken buck is joining us. james rosen, emily miller, jeffrey lord, there are many, many wonderful friends here. i also want to say a special thank you and welcome to al regnery who's here and has guided regnery -- [applause] for so many years before entrusting it to me. thank you as so much. and al

on the recommendation of william f. buckley, now the hoover presidential foundation contracted with dr. nash to write a multi-volume biography of herbert hoover. the three volumes that resulted in life of herbert hoover, the engineer, the humanitarian and master of emergencies remains the most thorough treatment of hoover's life from birth to the end of his work in the wilson administration as head of the food administration. he edited his unpublished writings. herbert hoover's lost memoir. he is someone who will forget more than i will ever know about herbert hoover. >>> thank you tom for that gracious and generous introduction and good morning, everyone. it's a pleasure to be in your company once again here at the herbert hoover presidential library. most of you in this audience know this was my research home for approximately 20 years and it remains my research home away from home as i currently live in massachusetts and continue to pursue various studies related to the life of herbert hoover. thank you tom and your staff an

my mentor was william f. buckley. when i joined "the national review" in 1985 or 1984, it had a long history. we had a very cohesive movement mentality and a set of ideas that were right for that moment, in my view. the book that explains all of this is "the structure of scientific revolutions." you have a paradigm. you have this framework that seems to explain reality and over time, the facts begin to contradict the framework. and then you get somebody who comes in and smashes the paradigm and that was donald over time, the facts begin to trump. he came in and poof, the republican paradigm just collapsed. and then you get a period of competing paradigms to see what is next. trump is like -- i compared him to abby huffman. abby huffman was not a great political planner, but he was great at political theater. he used theater to expose the weaknesses of the old order. that is donald trump. charlie: is the damage that you believe donald trump has done, how would you characterize it? david: he has degraded public life. da

how did a conservative movement go from being run by william f. buckley to sean hannity? how did it go from ronald reagan the donald trump?

when i was -- my mentor was william f. buckley. >> rose: right. when i joined national review in 1985 or '84, it had a long history, edmond burke, and we had a cohesive movement mentality and a set of ideas that were right for that moment, in my view. but the boo the book explains t, thomas kuhn has a framework that seems to explain reality and over time the facts begin to contradict the framework and then somebody smashes the paradigm and that was donald trump, he came in and went poof, and the republican paradigm just collapsed. then you get a period of competing paradigms as we compete to see what's next. so i compared trump like an abby hoffman who was great at political theater and used theater to expose the weaknesses of the old order, that's donald trump. >> rose: is the damage you believe donald trump has done, how would you characterize its ? >> well, he's degraded public life. he's aroused bigotry. he's degraded intellectual virtue, just the idea you should try to be honest and if somebody exposes you're against the evidence you should a

how do they conservative movement go from being run by william f buckley to sean hannity? @digital from ronald reagan to donald trump? how do we go from edmund burke to and culture? what happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. what just happened? what did we miss? the things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didn't. host: was there a seminal moment? was it years in the making? with the 2016? guest: i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. he came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over this otherwise healthy movement, but ultimately that's not a sustainable thesis. this was a dysfunction in the conservative movement and the republican party with pre-existing condition. he's a symptom and it's been a long time coming and i tried to go back and what were those moments, what were the signposts? was it when the republicans adopted as the seven strategy or newt gingrich weapon eyes politics? the moment that they thought sarah palin should be the vice presidential nominee? was a weird

then finally, i will refer to something that william mack-- william f buckley wrote several years ago about iraq, but is certainlyme applies to afghanisn even more so. esther buckley started out as a supporter of the war in iraq but before he died he became a strong opponent and wrote quote a respect for the power of w the united states is engendered by our success in engagement in which we take part. a point is reached when to their city conveys not steadfast purpose, but in this application of. let me repeat that, a point's reach went to nasty conveyed not steadfast of purpose, but misapplication of a pride. buckley continued saying it can't reasonably disputed that in the year ahead the situation in iraq continues as bad as it has done in the past year we will have suffered more than another 500 soldiers killed. he said where there has been skepticism about our venture there will be contempt. i can tell you that i don't really understand how any true fiscal conservative can be in favor of dragging this war on forever. we have been there 16 years and i think it's a huge understateme

that 62 years ago yet how true it is still today, and finally i will refer to something that william f buckley wrote several years ago. he wrote about iraq but it certainly applies to afghanistan even more so. he started out as a strong supporter of the war in iraq. he wrote this. i respect the power the united states and its engendered by our success in engagements in which we take part. let me repeat that. up.is reached when tenacity conveys not steadfast purpose but misapplication of pride. he continued by saying it can't reasonably be disputed that in the year ahead if the situation is as bad as it's been in the past year we will have suffered more than 100 soldiers killed. where there have been skepticism about our venture, there will then be contents. i can tell you i don't really understand how any true fiscal conservative can be in favor of dragging this war on forever. we been there 16 years and i think it's a huge understatement to say i don't agree with the new york times many times or very often. he pointed out that the u.s. has been at war continually since the attacks of 911 and

and then finally i will refer to something william f buckley wrote several years ago. he typewrowrote it about iraq b applies to afghanistan even more so. he started out as a strong supporter of the war in iraq but before he died became a strong opponent "i respect for the power of the united states is n engendered by the engagements we take part. a point is reached when tenacity is not steadfastness of -- a point is reached when tenacity conveys not steadfastness of purpose but misapplication of pride." and buckley continued. "it can't reasonably we disputed that in the year ahead if it copts as bad as it has done in the past year, we will have suffered more than another 500 soldiers killed. and he said where there have been skepticism about our venture, there will then be contempt. i can tell you i don't really understand how any true fiscal conservative can be in favor of dragging this war on forever. we've been there 16 years. and i don't -- i think it's a huge understatement to say that i don't agree with the new york times many times or very often. but the new yo

he comes from a different point of view but i think he represented the ideological shift in william f. buckley, jr. play a key role where donaldre trump represents the rejection of the small government ideas he did something that was crucial that to be taken seriously we have to get rid of the kkk and john birch society. so those that have the moral or political authority i think what is happening now is a rejection that dated back to goldwater. >> to is a contemporary political favorite?. >> vb charles krauthammer hour because the lessons of 2016 when of the book thing is the book talks about take the focus off of donald trump and what happens to the republican party. because now that willingness to rollover to recognize the problems and the rejection of conservative principles. >> from your political standpoint britisher option? -- what is the option?. >> a lot of conservatives are watching what is happening with disbelief to find themselves excommunicated. >> when van jones was talking about his book said to have a great party in danger of taken over by white supremacist in regard to the g.