Free New York Blog » Barry Goldwater, GOP “libertarian”

Today, Goldwater’s spirit lives on in the political arena…but not in the Republican Party. In 1998, the party which represents Goldwater’s ideals is the Libertarian Party, founded in 1971 as a reaction to what the GOP had become under Nixon and still remains today: The party of socially conservative big government. If the Republican Party had remained true to the principles of Barry Goldwater, the Libertarian Party probably would not exist, because it would be unnecessary.

Barry Goldwater was my political hero…and the greatest President we never had.

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