He’s absolutely right about Goldwater. Old neocons are constantly having nightmarish flashbacks. The sad part is that they should know, since at tge time they were probably liberals, what a screwjob Goldwater got. Those mushroom cloud ads are nothing but embarrassing. Those psychologists who diagnosed him as a madman from their armchairs are a common retrospective joke. Everyone knows how disastrously LBJ crashed and burned in his next term.
Can we at long last admit conservatism got not fair shake in ‘64?