Kevin Phillips

Kevin Phillips was chief political analyst for the 1968 Republican presidential campaign, which culminated in the victory of Richard Nixon. Phillips also was partly responsible for the design of the Republican “Southern strategy,” which transformed the once Democratic South into a Republican stronghold. In 1969 he wrote The Emerging Republican Majority. His politics evolved over the ensuing decades. He wrote many books including American Theocracy and Bad Money. He died in 2023.