Conservatism
An Early Unpatriotic Conservative
Barry Goldwater defended extremism and revealed an isolationist, unpatriotic streak by blaming the Democrats for all of America’s modern wars. That’s Joshua Muravchik, writing in 1984 about a Goldwater speech at that year’s Republican convention. Of course, before the Bushes it was true that all of the major U.S. conflicts of the 20th century had […]
Barry Goldwater defended extremism and revealed an isolationist, unpatriotic streak by blaming the Democrats for all of America’s modern wars.
That’s Joshua Muravchik, writing in 1984 about a Goldwater speech at that year’s Republican convention. Of course, before the Bushes it was true that all of the major U.S. conflicts of the 20th century had begun under Democratic administrations.
