Red Like Us

Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power, by Thomas B. Edsall (Basic, 320 pp., $26)

AN old joke has one German Jew asking another why he is reading Der Stürmer. He says that he reads it to feel better. Other newspapers tell him about pogroms, dispossession, and forced migration. The Nazi press tells him that he’s running the world.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power, by Thomas B. Edsall (Basic, 320 pp., $26)

AN old joke has one German Jew asking another why he is reading Der Stürmer. He says that he reads it to feel better. Other newspapers tell him about pogroms, dispossession, and forced migration. The Nazi press tells him that he’s running the world.