When a pundit wants to highlight a candidate’s nuttiness or “extremism,” the go-to comparison is Barry Goldwater. Now Goldwater’s failed 1964 campaign is the analogy du jour for Ted Cruz. But such comparisons get Goldwater terribly wrong. Goldwater’s positions were radically for his day. He was a dyed-in-the-wool, no-holds-barred, small government, Cold War hawk who was ideologically… Continue Reading
