Goldwaterism
English
Etymology
Goldwater + -ism
Noun
Goldwaterism (uncountable)
- A political stance associated with the more extreme right-wing positions of Barry Goldwater.
- 1991, E.J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics: Death of the Democratic Process:
- Yet so many of the neoconservatives who had preached against Goldwaterism when Goldwater was its champion embraced the Goldwaterism of Ronald Reagan.
- 2011, Steven Gregory, Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community, page 72:
- “We must decide how to use these machines most effectively,” a letter sent to residents noted, “Goldwaterism must be defeated” (Independent Citizens, 17 October 1964).
- 2015, Lee Edwards, Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution:
- It spoke of the "ill-advised attempts" to substitute Goldwaterism for Republicanism and presented an apocalyptic vision of the senator's positions.
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Related terms
- Goldwater Republican
- Goldwaterian
- neoconservatism