Conservatism and the Goldwater Consensus

It is now official. Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times all consider Barry Goldwater “the leading Republican Presidential candidate.” At this moment—with the seriousness of Senator Goldwater’s candidacy universally recognized and before we enter the gruelling months of campaigning, from January to July and on to November — it may be helpful to survey the road the conservative movement has come these past few years, and to consider its future, particularly its relationship to the broad national consensus that can make Q old water President of the United States. For, we should make no mistake about it, the conscious conservative movement and the Goldwater following (to say nothing of the potential Goldwater following) are not one and the same thing.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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It is now official. Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times all consider Barry Goldwater “the leading Republican Presidential candidate.” At this moment—with the seriousness of Senator Goldwater’s candidacy universally recognized and before we enter the gruelling months of campaigning, from January to July and on to November — it may be helpful to survey the road the conservative movement has come these past few years, and to consider its future, particularly its relationship to the broad national consensus that can make Q old water President of the United States. For, we should make no mistake about it, the conscious conservative movement and the Goldwater following (to say nothing of the potential Goldwater following) are not one and the same thing.

Meyer