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No Hope is for disaffected conservatives and moderates as well as liberals who are fed up with the political party system. Forty-three percent of Americans now identify as Independents. Many of them are right of center and used to be Republicans.
In No Hope, former Republican Jimmy LaSalvia, cofounder of GOProud, which was one of the highest-profile gay political organizations, will share what he did to ignite change in the Republican Party. But ultimately LaSalvia determined there was no hope that conservatives would evolve on important cultural issues—revealing the party as an untenable coalition that includes the tolerance of bigotry.
No Hope chronicles Jimmy's evolution from team-player Republican to free-thinking Independent and includes entertaining stories and anecdotes about some of the biggest names in politics today, including Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Roger Ailes, Reince Priebus, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and others. No Hope also exposes some of the ugliest anti-gay operators in Washington, DC.
In early 2014, Jimmy announced his resignation from the Republican Party and changed his voter registration to join the new majority of Independent voters, receiving significant media attention. Now, in No Hope, he tells all and, in the most entertaining outing in political book history, breaks apart the current two-party system to energize democracy.
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- ISBN: 9781510702394
- File size: 6187 KB
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- ISBN: 9781510702394
- File size: 6185 KB
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- English
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September 15, 2015
After more than a decade working in the Republican Party, openly gay conservative activist LaSalvia could no longer reconcile himself to the policies and politics of the GOP. He bailed out of the GOP and went independent, joining a growing number of Americans disappointed in both parties. Lamenting the stubborn impulse in the Republican Party to hold onto a glorified past when straight, white, Christian males dominated politics, he details the work of GOProud, the group he cofounded for gay conservatives. After strategizing to help the party be more inclusive, LaSalvia bailed out when GOProud was banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference. In this revealing book, he offers a behind-the-scenes look at the cultural politics of several prominent Republican figures, including presidential hopefuls Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Ted Cruz. He looks at the broader political landscape, from political commentator Ann Coulter to Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, and FOX television executive Roger Ailes. As the presidential campaign heats up, LaSalvia's book offers an interesting perspective on culture issues in politics.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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