The Old Right: What happened?

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Ever since Senator Robert Taft lost the Republican Party nomination to moderate Republican General Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, it seems that the "Old Right" has been in decline.

Barry Goldwater's nomination in 1964 was a glimmer of hope, but then the New Right hijacked the movement and turned the libertarian aspects into authoritarianism and substituted Austrian economics for military Keynesianism,

What happened? Somewhere in the 1960s or 1970s, it seems like the new conservative movement was corrupted.

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It died because you can't expect to grow supporters in government by not giving away free stuff. Paleoconservatives and libertarians give away little "free stuff" when they are in power which is why there are so few of them in government. Neocons are socialists (politicians that give away "free" stuff on the back of the taxpayer) that support some the old right's beliefs such as 2nd-amendment rights and paying lip service to social conservatism issues like abortion. That is why neocons make up the bulk of the modern GOP.

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It died because you can't expect to grow supporters in government by not giving away free stuff. Paleoconservatives and libertarians give away little "free stuff" when they are in power which is why there are so few of them in government. Neocons are socialists (politicians that give away "free" stuff on the back of the taxpayer) that support some the old right's beliefs such as 2nd-amendment rights and paying lip service to social conservatism issues like abortion. That is why neocons make up the bulk of the modern GOP.

Yet people never seem to learn that neocons aren't true conservatives.

Maybe Ronald Reagan was too charismatic for the nation's good.

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What happened?

This. (http://books.google.com/books?id=m1tF1CxYnD8C)