摘要:Ziegler traces how the antiabortion movement helped to forge and later upend the alliance between conservative Christianity and big business in the modern Republican Party. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley V. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending-and the First Amendment-work. The antiabortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in US politics and convinced conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics-and explains how it had everything to do with campaign spending. --Adapted from publisher description.
