Why Elizabeth Warren Should Stay Where She Is

[Douglas Carpenter]

37. conservative loved Goldwater - but Everybody else, not so much

But did the conservatives after 1964 do what the liberals did after 1972 and give up? No, they built a movement and won and came back and dominated American politics for a generation - a movement so to the right of Barry Goldwater that he eventually ended up a pariah in the movement he helped create. What a different America we would have if liberals had come back and built a movement instead of adopting the philosophy of reshaping the Democratic Party into the moderate wing of the Republican Party.

McGovern was right. He was right from the start. He was right about the war in Vietnam. He was right about changing the tax system and fundamentally altering the safety net. He was right just about everything. McGovern was sabotaged by a very hateful campaign initiated by the Democratic Party leadership who were determined to steal the nomination from him even if meant wrecking the entire party. What a different America we would have if the Democratic Party establishment had simply accepted the mandate of the primaries instead of trying of trying to steal the nomination and hadn't intentionally sabotaged the McGovern campaign in 1972.