Friday, July 02, 2021

Oh, You Mean Like The Goldwater Campaign In ‘64

The one that turned the GOP into what it is today.

The past isn’t passed. Even if you weren’t there for it.

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  1. I didn't realize Rick Wilson was that much younger than me. He was about 1 when Goldwater got the nomination. The account of that Republican convention by Jackie Robinson - who supported Rockefeller - is worth re-reading because it was fully Trumpian back in 1964. It was the sanitized, rehabilitated, Supreme Court - Florida under Jeb installed presidency of Bush II that gave us Roberts and Alito. That party has been corrupt for all but, perhaps, the Eisenhower years. There's a reason that Teddy Roosevelt had to leave it a lot earlier than 1964. And TR wasn't any angel by a long shot.

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