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Commentary
Somewhere during the last seven decades, the Republican Party leadership lost its way, as well as its connection with rank-and-file Republicans. While there have always been "wings" in the party reflected by key leaders during a particular period, the hardening of the current GOP establishment against rank-and-file Republicans has never been quite so widely understood as it is this year.
Let us explore the topic.
Splits-Ville
Here are some examples of the splits within the Republican Party that have become increasingly wide and acrimonious among the participants:
Goldwater Conservatives Versus Rockefeller Republicans
Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater defeated former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the 1964 nomination. Rockefeller helped the Democrats torpedo Goldwater's campaign, with the media playing a role eerily similar to their attacks on Donald Trump in 2020. Rockefeller's primary challenge against Goldwater was a forerunner of the politics of personal destruction perfected by the Clintons in the 1990s, and provided much cannon fodder for the Democrat Lyndon Johnson's campaign. Western conservatives versus Northeast liberals....