I spotted the magazine below in a New Hampshire antiques store. My first thought was, “If this was published today, the media would be blethering on that Barry Goldwater and his wife are Nazis.”
The 1964 Republican National Convention was quite a raucous affair:
The 1964 convention shocked observers. Goldwater’s supporters heaped abuse on the media and moderate Republicans who refused to endorse the nominee. It was a stark digression from the typical convention, in which a newly crowned nominee and his allies extended olive branches to all wings of the party. In 1960, for example, Goldwater had scolded conservatives who didn’t want to endorse Vice President Richard Nixon, exhorting them to get on board.
But the vitriolic display, full of conspiracy theories and extremism, embodied the brand of conservatism on the rise in the GOP — one that now dominates the party.
The question is, was Goldwater incorrect? Ever since 1964, the country club Republicans who allowed the drip-drip-drip of Leftism to seep into American society refuse to accept that they were wrong to not stop it in its tracks.
Goldwater was 100% correct:
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.”
How queer if you to say that … as you endorse the drip, drip, drip of the LGBTQueer-mutants into the Republican Party. Why? Because you have a hard on for Sundance or something. Hey sporto! Take a look around at our cultural ROT initiated and driven by the LGBTQueer-mutants. Teaching our 11yo boys how to sukk cawk in the classroom. Schools hiding your 10yo daughters ‘transitioning’ and ‘his’ pronouns. Rainbow this, rainbow that. Gay day. Gay parade. Gay month. Gay season.
But this Marxist inspired rewriting of our culture and governance is just fine with Republicans like you. Pssst … Goldwater would have spoken out against this ROT even more vociferously than moi.
Kenji, you’re as thick as a brick and it’s obvious you know all about sukking cawk. You can’t stop mentioning it.
Goldwater would have told you: “Get lost kid, you bother me, go sit at the children’s table, and don’t sneak under the table.”
Curious. You take the time to respond to my comment without addressing a single comment I made. Just some silly, homopositive personal attack. You’re like someone debating with Charlie Kirk who just calls him a stooped poopy head when they disagree with him.
My mistake, you are thicker than a brick. I don’t debate with idiots.
The analogy with today is not a bad one.
Over the last decade, we’ve watched the Democrats slowly split apart as the socialist wing of the party gained increasing support. We are now seeing the same within the Republican Party, as Trump and his supporters take many positions that the more central conservatives disagree with. The MAGA crowd seem to be getting increasingly vocal about ridding the party of the latter:
https://rinowatch.com/time-clean-senate-rinos-must-go-heres-list/
The central conservatives aren’t conservatives, not in the past and not now.
They are members of the Uniparty allied with their Democrat brethren.
I say the opposite. Trump and his supporters are not conservative. I don’t know what, but not conservative. As an example, Trump’s tariffs in aggregate represent one of the biggest tax increases in American history.
This is a conservative:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-WBPrVw
Psssst … you know what’s an even BIGGER tax on me than tariffed products I don’t buy? Theft. The “shrinkage” tax I pay on EVERY product, by EVERY retailer whose stores have been systematically shoplifted to the tune of $Billions since George Floyd made theft great. Since George Floyd and BLM made retail theft capitalist … Justice. Or something. I pay prices up to 50% higher (at my local Home Depot, for ex.) to cover cost of the theft. How do I know that? By comparing the prices of common items between THAT particular Home Depot and other Home Depot’s and a local Lowe’s that are too remotely located to be stolen blind.
Thank you for that whataboutism.
I’ll correct your spelling … the word is: Truth.
I wrote about the “tax” that MOST impacts my life. The tariff “tax” hasn’t impacted my bottom line … just as “millionaire taxes” … and “lottery winner taxes” … haven’t impacted me in the least.
Tariff costs take time to trickle down, but ultimately the cost of all taxes are borne by the worker and consumer.
You might not notice it much. They’ll be no entry in your sales receipts or your pay cheques labelled “tariff costs”. But it will be there, at an averge rate of about $1000 / person / year.
Funny thing … America’s economy is plugging along pretty GREAT for all the “self inflicted tariff damage”. Yeah … like the global warmists you keep warning of the coming catastrophes. And just like the global warmists …you keep warning, failing, warning, failing, warning, failing … ad nauseum.
1964 was less than 20 years after WWII.
People knew what a “Nazi” was and the Progs couldn’t throw the word around and get away with it.
Bingo! And they also knew that the ‘OK’ hand signal wasn’t some ‘white supremacist secret code.
this one time campaign vid helped lbj do the landslide thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cwqHB6QeUw
I think both parties are evolving.
Or is it devolving?
Even the factions have factions.