As a conservative in Illinois, John Tillman is tired of losing. Not content to accept this fate meekly, he has been in the arena for two decades, founding and leading a variety of activist organizations. Now, he poses his favorite question in book form: “Why is it that when conservatives are elected, they immediately begin moving to the left, and when progressives are elected, they simply move further left?” Why does no one move to the right once in office, and can we change this?
The Political Vise is named for a metaphor Tillman has been using for years. In his visualization (sketched out in illustrations in the book), politicians are squeezed from three sides: by the voters, the media, and the “influencers.” The latter term may reek of Instagram lifestyle accounts, but Tillman refers more broadly to the universe of businesses, unions, lobbies, and nongovernmental organizations.
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