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.

Here's how this will play out, here's the meta-script, and please don't laugh it off.

How this all started is not how it will end. A story that began with a clear traditional moral shape, an innocent victim, a vile perpetrator, will be transformed using secondary characters, new… https://t.co/mYpxnfmwfm

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) September 17, 2025

The usual suspects on the Left will regurgitate the old talking point that “there are bad people on both sides”. While this is technically correct, what is much more accurate is that the rhetoric by Leftist politicians and media figures has emboldened countless people on the Left to think it is perfectly fine to call for the assassination of many more people. This will only stop when the folks shown here are very publicly arrested and prosecuted. Then, in publicly televised trials, the world needs to hear who these cretins were propagandized by. All named in the media then need to be subpoenaed on Capitol Hill and publicly shamed and belittled. Anything short of this and this insanity will never stop.

The tag line of @WomenNC reads, “Empowering the next generation to advance gender equality in North Carolina.”

Yet they have not uttered a word about the horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina! Why? Because they do not care about women if the murderer of women don’t fit a very specific criteria.

I never thought I’d reach adulthood and see women’s groups that don’t care about women, Ukrainian groups that don’t care about Ukrainians, and immigrant groups that don’t care about immigrants.

Related: Is BLM actually saying that black people “have the right to violence”?!?

MSNBC releases pathetic apology after Matthew Dowd claimed Charlie Kirk brought it on himself:

Far-left MSNBC released a pathetic apology on Wednesday night after its network’s senior political analyst, Matthew Dowd, said that Charlie Kirk’s “hate” was responsible for his own shooting.

Appearing on MSNBC’s afternoon program, anchor Katy Tur said, “Matthew, I’m going to bring you in on this. Talk to me about the environment. You know, we are, there are reports of exactly what happened are not confirmed yet. But talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens.”