/lit/ - Literature

Conservatard grifters are still alive and well today publishing the same shit buddy, although I think today most people buy these online. Only the lib versions of this are still in brick and mortar stores.

You should read Gottfried's books on the conservative movement. Actual conservatism, usually called paleoconservatism, was suppressed in the 80s-00's. You might find Buchanan's books in bookstores, but you'd have a harder time finding Sam Francis, Mel Bradford, Joe Sobran, etc. Let alone I'll Take My Stand.

>>17792713
Peter Brimelow's 'Alien Nation' was a best-seller in 1995, but after that, something shifted in the conservative publishing industry. Less than a decade later, it was dominated by titles like pic related:

Maybe pic related had something to do with it. Their pundits and talking heads became the voices of the conservative movement and I feel like they all have a dozen books.

>>17792747
The Reaganite propaganda is strong because the powers that be want to establish trickle down economics and libertarianism as the nec plus ultra of "conservatism." They want young people exhausted by liberal faggotry to go "FUCK YOU DAD, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GONNA DO IT, I'M GONNA BECOME ULTRACONSERVATIVE JUST TO SPITE YOU, I'M GONNA BECOME.. I'M GONNA BECOME....... A BOWTIE-WEARING ISRAEL-EXCUSING LIBERTARIAN RETARD!"

They're very good at that. Same trick they pull with the "America is a propositional nation" BS.

it was a time of affluence with no perceived end. the books were essentially beanie babies, a biproduct of excess. books intended to be sold and stocked by franchise locations owned by the selfsame "conservatives" who owned them. I put conservatives in quotes because they were george bush styled republicans who wore cowboy hats and threw one a drawl simulating the kind of texan oil tycoons who played in their ranches and pretended at having poor man/working man's stylings and were celebrated as the captains of the industry before they, you know, poisoned the fucking gulf.

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>>17792713
Bingo.

>>17792798
Inanities.

>>17792606
The short answer is "William F Buckley and Jews."

>>17792713
>Let alone I'll Take My Stand.

Based. Pic related is probably even harder to find being read by modern """conservatives""""

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>>17792798
What a bunch of crybaby weenies. Israel sucks, but pull yourselves together.

>>17792606
>many of them are full of bullet points, short and simple paragraphs
Most non fiction books are written simply. There meant to be informative. There not written to please English majors. There point is simple effective communication of ideas.

>What was the audience for this stuff? And what happened during the Obama years to make this stuff lose market share/popularity?

Boomers silent and greatest generation. Some of there target audience has died off. Christianity is not as big as it once was. Most modern right wing mass market boomer lit is about issues not America as a whole. Things like immigration and the media. Or about trump and his relation to these things. He is a big topic currently. Islamic terrorism is not as big of a topic. We don't have a lot of it anymore.

>>17792606
It started out as Reaganite garbage and then after 9/11 became neocon warmongering garbage. However, many of the books (like the one you posted) are and were just celebrities with conservative (and often poorly educated) fans trying to cash in.