Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Can Learn from Conservative Success
In Being Right Is Not Enough, political analyst Paul Waldman offers Democrats and progressives a clear-eyed, multifaceted strategy for victory in elections, policy debates, and the fundamental battle between progressivism and conservatism. The time has come, he says, for progressives to borrow several pages from the right-wing playbook and beat them at their own game.
Waldman provides more than a list of suggestions. He specifies techniques and strategies aimed at increasing the number of progressive commentators and pundits in the media, identifying strengths and weaknesses that should guide progressive strategies in the future, and defining progressive ideology in terms that all Americans will embrace.
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Book details
- Author
- Paul Waldman
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Political Science › Political Ideologies › Conservatism & Liberalism
Political Science › American Government - Topics
- progressive politics · conservative strategy · American politics · political ideology · partisan politics · Democrats and Republicans · media and politics · election strategy
- ISBN-13
- 9781620457238
About the author
PAUL WALDMAN is a journalist, opinion writer, and political analyst, and the author or co-author of several books on media and politics. His recent books include White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, Free Ride: John McCain and the Media and Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success.
Waldman holds a BA in Political Science from Swarthmore College and a PhD in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and digital outlets, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and CNN. He is a former columnist at The Washington Post.
Paul lives in Washington, D.C.