Impostor by Bruce Bartlett

How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy

A sharp critique arguing that a modern Republican president portrayed himself as a conservative while systematically abandoning core conservative principles—running up massive deficits through large tax cuts for the wealthy, expanding executive power, launching an unnecessary war, and fostering cronyism—and tracing how those choices betrayed the Reagan-era commitment to limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free-market policies while damaging the Republican Party and the nation’s long-term prosperity.