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.
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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All that says is that they reacted to current events; they'd have had something to say on any President. It doesn't say their rise was inspired by Eisenhower, or that a different sort of national politics would have prevented it. Might have facilitated it, or done nothing to it.
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There was an undeniable demographic/geographical shift going on but it took a long time and had little to do with Ike. Nixon and the Wall Street R's managed to co-opt/beat back the Goldwater faction in 1968 and Ford managed to hold off Reagan in 1976.
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