Epstein Secrets

in the primary race, that there was any attempt to be conciliatory to Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign by the Republican powers that were. Even Barry Goldwater, whose career owed so much to Ronald Reagan, was cool at best to a Reagan presidency. | remember one post-Bush-defeat meeting of our committee when

ld carry with it large numbers of House members and Senators. Reagan, they thought, would prove to be more devastating to Republicans than either the Goldwater defeat of 1964 or the Ford defeat of 1976. As you all know, none of this happened. We handily defeated Carter, even though we were behind in the pol

ent redistributed wealth to lazy minorities. But they have also pushed hard on the idea that true Americans are Western individualists. Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater launched this association in 1964 by dismissing Brown v. Board as governmental overreach and fictionalizing his wealthy upbringing as a hardscrabbl

an made it even more explicit by contrasting his image of the Welfare Queen' with his own cowboy hat and EFTA00834930 Western ranch. And yet, the Goldwater and the Reagan stories mirrored those of the historical Western individual: their regions, and their own families, prospered only when government co

founding of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review in=1955. In 1964, movement conservatives captured the Republican presid=ntial nomination for Barry Goldwater. They lost the general election=that year, but in 1980 and 1984 the White House was won by a leader of the=r movement, Ronald Reagan. <=r> Yet by

led. Not only =hat, they are losing support among GOP voters. This =s nothing less than a failure of conservatism itself. After Buckley,=Reagan and Goldwater had jettisoned much of their earlier hard-edged conservatism, there should have be an intellectual reformation on the American r=ght in the 1990s.