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Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ~ Barry Goldwater, Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006)
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That is why the Republican party is a bunch of social conservatives, not political conservatives.
Coming from Goldwater, himself an inflexible type, it's pretty visionary. Maybe he had redeeming qualities after all?
The preachers were pretty entrenched in the Republican party by the 80s.