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American politician (1909-1998). Goldwater was a conservative icon for decades until the religious right started to take over the Republican Party in th...

For more than two decades the Cheney and Bush families and Karl Rove have run the Republican Party by controlling fundraising. In 2016, Jeb Bush raised and spent more than $130 million from this powerful network of donors, at a cost of $46 million per delegate whom he won. At the same time, Karl Rove was predicting that if Donald Trump became the Republican nominee then Democrats would win the White House and the Senate. The opposite happened as Trump became president and his coattails lifted...

shutterstock.com Late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly published her first book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964 in hopes of breaking the stranglehold of country club Republicans on the grand old party’s presidential nominating process. Every four years, it seemed even then, the party faithful were presented with a somewhat less offensive version of the opposition’s choice, i.e., Democrat Lite. Thanks in part to the enthusiasm generated by her book, Sen. Barry Go...

Illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing as an honest broker in the American two-party system, committed (among other things) to the peaceful transition of power, the conduct of free and fair elections, and e...