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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Same reason Clinton generated such visceral opposition from the right in the 90's I think, even with his centrism. "Safe, legal, and rare" on its own was enough to generate that opposition. He always noted he was governing like Eisenhower,
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Was activism for Goldwater a form of community building / personal identity definition for those flocking, from across America, to the modern suburban lifestyle of the West and Southwest? Would that especially be true of Women for Goldwater?pic.twitter.com/xPbPCNO2fJ
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Other factors: The press did a great job of villifying Joe McCarthy after Welch and even more so after he died. For the right, no one could be anti-Communist enough. There was also the feeling that JFK only won in 1960 because of shenanigans in Texas and Illinois.
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