![]() ![]() By the time of Goldwater’s Presidential run, the conservative movement had been wrested from the control of the John Birch Society and delivered to the young activists around William F. This was not simply a triumph of reactionaries. Perlstein is the first to suggest that Republicans got there first. What had happened? Other historians have noted that democracy went into the streets in the 1960’s, but Mr. Ten new Republican governors (including Ronald Reagan) would come to power in 1966, and Republicans would win five out of the next six Presidential elections. The Goldwaterite Young Americans for Freedom recruited 5,400 new members in that campaign summer, as against 1,500 for Students for a Democratic Society. Goldwater gathered more than a million–along with a record 3.9 million volunteers. ![]() Kennedy had 22,000 donors, Richard Nixon 44,000. ![]() Rick Perlstein’s Before the Storm sees the Goldwater debacle as a lost battle in a won war. ![]()
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