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Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government

• Published By Thomas Nelson
By Stephen Slivinski
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Buck Wild offers a scathing critique of the Republican Party and explains how its abandonment of limited government principles jeopardize the future of the Grand Old Party and the nation.

Through gripping narrative and trenchant analysis, Stephen Slivinski tells the surprising story of the GOP’s unfortunate transformation, revealing how and why Republicans have:

  • become the biggest spenders in Washington since Lyndon Johnson.
  • abandoned the keystone principles that catapulted them to power in the first place.
  • betrayed taxpayers and fiscal conservatives.
  • planted the seeds of their own undoing in the coming elections.

Buck Wild tells the story of how the Republican Party lost its head and also explores urgent questions about the fate of limited government, including whether conservatives within the GOP can save the party from itself before it’s too late.

A fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party is brewing. Buck Wild explains how the GOP reached the breaking point and what it means for the future of the party and American government.

About the Author

Stephen Slivinski is an expert in tax and budget issues at the state and federal levels, and former director of budget studies at the Cato Institute. Prior to that, he worked as a senior economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Slivinski has served as director of tax and budget studies for the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a research associate at the James Madison Institute in Florida. He is coauthor (with Stephen Moore) of Cato’s “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors,” and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and National Review Online, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Slivinski holds a master’s degree in economics from George Mason University.