02573cam a2200325 i 4500 480277203 TxAuBib 20210125120000.0 200128s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020003421 9781641771023 cloth 164177102X cloth TxAuBib rda Kesler, Charles R.,. Crisis of the two constitutions : the rise, decline, and recovery of American greatness / Charles R. Kesler. First American edition. New York : Encounter Books, 2021. 451 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Education, Cultural Relativism, and the American Founding -- Natural Right in the American Revolution -- The Founders and the Classics -- Federalist 10 and American Republicanism -- The Promise of American Citizenship -- Civility and Citizenship -- Education and Politics -- A New Birth of Freedom -- The Crisis of American National Identity -- Democracy and the Bush Doctrine -- Woodrow Wilson and the Statesmanship of Progress -- Separation of Powers and the Administrative State -- The Reagan Revolution and the Legacy of the New Deal -- What's Wrong with Conservatism -- The Conservative Challenge -- The Old New Left and the New New Left -- Trump and the Conservative Cause. "If Conservatism is to succeed and thrive, it must return to its American roots (not Burke or the common law, or Kirk and traditionalism, or libertarianism and Hayek) Donald Trump understands, in a common sense and political way, the principles of the Founding and how they should be applied to forge a new governing coalition. The neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has more in common with progressivism than with the American Founding. Politics is not "downstream from culture" because politics, especially political foundings, create the culture of a country. Multiculturalism and identity politics, and their notion of group rights, is incompatible with the nation state, citizenship, and the protection of rights as America's Founders those things"-- Provided by publisher. 20210125. jz. Constitutional history United States. Conservatism United States. United States Politics and government.