Frank Buckley, author of The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America, joined the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss a theory of pursuing socialist ends through capitalist means and the issue of economic upward mobility across our country.

Buckley reflected on the results of the 2012 election and the way American social classes have evolved since. "We have grown a new class of aristocrats above the commanding heights of our economy a small group of people, not the one percent, so much as the two or three percent composed of academics...lawyers..trust fund babies..."

The problems effecting the white working class are of a different nature than some of the problems effecting the working class more generally, Domenech said. "When it comes to the success of Donald Trump, it seems to me it is no accident that out of the states that have voted thus far, that are in the top 20 of recipients of federal disability aid, that Donald Trump won all but three of them," Domenech said.

Buckley said the country is ready for a Machiavellian moment. "We are to understand American politics today not in terms of a Right and Left continuum, but rather a virtue-corruption continuum," Buckley said. "And that explains both the rise of Bernie Sanders and to some extent Donald Trump."

F.H. Buckley on Economic Mobility, Social Class Change, and Nostalgic America

Joseph Tartakovsky sits down with Ben Weingarten to discuss his new book 'The Lives of the Constitution', and its ten historical characters including their impact on and response to the American Founding, the development of the administrative state, constitutional law, the perversion of the courts, war powers and much more.

Learn more in 'The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America's Supreme Law': https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-lives-of-the-constitution/

Joseph Tartakovsky is the is the James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy.

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Fellow of the London Center for Policy Research and a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.

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