unch from a protester on Inauguration Day that was memorialized on YouTube. CPAC, organized by the remnants of the conservative movement after Barry Goldwater’s apocalyptic defeat in 1964, had, with stoic indefatigability, turned itself into the backbone of conservative survival and triumph. It had purged J

n in 1965, the Republicans. were in much worse shape than in 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a Jand- slide re-election over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress and the statehouses. The party was deeply divided between “moder- ates,” such as

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

ate is the latest medical professional to speculate about President Trump's mental health. Rebecca Brendel (HMS/Mass General) discusses the so-called Goldwater rule of the American Psychiatric Association that discourages physicians from expressing public opinions about people whom they are not treating. Can