How did we get here?

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33. And let us not forget Barry Goldwater

Here’s an article I stumbled upon from the heritage foundation (yes, the infamous project 2025 heritage foundation), released in 2015.

To give you just a nugget to chew on, here’s this delightful quip:

“It is said that American politics must rest on compromise,” observed University of Virginia professor of politics James Ceaser during Heritage’s Tea Party event.5 However, he continued, “compromise is not the only virtue. One should say something in favor of the virtue of obstinacy from time to time.”

https://static.heritage.org/2015/pdf/IB4337.pdf]