Conservative books sell better than liberal books. Why?

[Douglas Carpenter]

84. I did NOT say Republicans out number Democrats.. Those numbers bounce around but have rough parity

The Democratic Party is NOT an explicitly liberal or left-wing party and never has been. It does have a base of grassroots supporters that lean in the liberal/left direction. They are operating in a very different frame of thinking than the elected wing and the professional class of the Party. There is no question that when framed issue by issue - many possibly even most Americans will support a liberal or left leaning position most of the time when it gets down to actual specifics. This hs nothing to do with ideology. But there is no question that in the U.S. that there are a lot more right-wing ideologies then liberal or left-wing ideologues. Any cursory view of polling will verify that. Any simple observation of America will verify that. They are the people more inclined to buy ideologically driven publishing or listen to ideologically driven radio or watch ideologically driven news channels which is far, far larger than the liberal/left equivalent for an obvious reason. There are a LOT more of them.