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are 90 miles away; the Negroes are wrecking
our
nice, clean, safe
neighborhoods. Goldwater will continue
to
be' vague; in the bowling
alleys, bars, and living rooms his workers will search out and develop
one concrete fix and fear. A quota has already been set for every voting
district in the country.
Goldwater's national appeal will be tangential. It's hard to con–
duct a whispering campaign over coast-to-coast television; easy at the
precinct level.
The campaign is pitched at the pro!. The Rightists, who quote and
use Lenin
and
Pareto, Mao Tse-Tung
and
Hitler, have themselves a
man with a cracker-barrel philosopher's voice, Clark Kent's jaw and
glasses, and a
Terry and the Pirates
view of the Cold War. With him
they will try to take over the masses.
HANS
J.
MORGENTHAU
Goldwater's candidacy is a portentous and ominous event.
It
is so by virtue of the conjunction of three factors.
Goldwater continues and strengthens the romantic disposition which
has dominated the Republican party since 1932 and led it from defeat
to defeat; the Eisenhower victories are mere accidents proving the
rule. That Goldwater has taken away the Republican party from the
liberals is a myth created by his liberal opponents in order to justify
their own position within the Republican party. As an analysis of per–
sons and doctrines would show, Goldwater's philosophy represents the
same romantic longing for the restoration of a golden age of in–
dividual responsibility, free enterprise, a passive federal government,
a balanced budget, American omnipotence abroad, which
has
been the
day-dream of the Republican party since 1932. Goldwater did not
impose an alien philosophy upon the Republican party. Rather, he
rescued its deepest convictions from the adulteration administered to
them by a liberal minority and the practical politicians.
What distinguishes Goldwater from his predecessors as Republican
candidates for the Presidency is not his philosophy but his apparent
willingness to put that philosophy into practice. Goldwater is a simple,
straightforward, and unsophisticated man. He gives the appearance of
meaning what he says. He appears to be determined to act the Re-