By the early 1960s, however, the right wing of the GOP, sidelined for nearly thirty years, had openly revolted. Barry Goldwater’s call for “a choice, not an echo” reflected this mood, as he articulated the reborn libertarianism of the New Right. In 1964, crushing the liberal wing of the Republican Party, Goldwater argued that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue.”
