Elite bipartisanship & comity feeds popular appetite for anti-system politics: outsiders who will shake things up. James Munroe's "Era of Good Feelings" with cross-spectrum cabinet provoking rise of Andrew Jackson, Eisenhower's Middle-of-the-Road > Goldwater.
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No, it didn't. Certain institutions associated with it may have, but they were not coming from nowhere. And in any case conservatism was undergoing a period of redefinition because of global and domestic events, that had nothing to do with Eisenhower.
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It's worth reading what these people actually wrote. The early National Review, Bircher publications & Goldwaterite stuff (like A Choice, Not An Echo) was viscerally and deeply anti-Eisenhower: he was to them either socialist-symp or commie.
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But not as a reaction to Eisenhower. It began 1) because the target R populations began to move South and West and 2) because the Massive Resistance to the CRM began then, too.
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elite bipartisanship and comity + a politics of endless wars and economic inequality + racial resentment; ok, i am not known for my elegant and parsimonious theories
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