Goldwaterism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A political stance associated with the more extreme right-wing positions of Barry Goldwater. uncountable

    "Yet so many of the neoconservatives who had preached against Goldwaterism when Goldwater was its champion embraced the Goldwaterism of Ronald Reagan."

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"Yet so many of the neoconservatives who had preached against Goldwaterism when Goldwater was its champion embraced the Goldwaterism of Ronald Reagan."

Etymology

From Goldwater + -ism.

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