"The Goldwater defeat of 1964, which a triumphant left said would bury the right forever, turned out to be liberalism's last hurrah."
Huh? What alternate universe is this guy from? I wish to god that statement was true but in 45 years of life I've just seen an enormous reduction in freedoms due almost entirely to liberlism.
Actually, only the big-spending, big-government, nanny-state, conservatives are left in the GOP since 1964. Many GOP politicians are unreconstructed Democrats that changed their hats.