Wanted: a Tea Party Speaker
Why House Republicans need a leader who can be an ambassador from the right wing to the establishment.
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Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. His column appears every Sunday. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger for theatlantic.com.
He is the author of “Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics,” published in 2012, and “Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class” (2005), and a co-author, with Reihan Salam, of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream” (2008). He is the film critic for National Review.
He lives with his wife and daughters in Washington. Read his blog, Evaluations, and follow him on Twitter.
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