Your chapter on the Goldwater campaign of 1964 in your "Times They Were A-Changin'" book does a great job of connecting the authoritarian features and rightwing fanaticism in the Goldwater movement back then to the Republican Party now having gone full Trumpist. And this is spot-on: the Republicans are currently offering an off-ramp from democracy.
Your chapter on the Goldwater campaign of 1964 in your "Times They Were A-Changin'" book does a great job of connecting the authoritarian features and rightwing fanaticism in the Goldwater movement back then to the Republican Party now having gone full Trumpist. And this is spot-on: the Republicans are currently offering an off-ramp from democracy.