http://prospect.org/article/rand-pauls-millennial-quest-little-libertarian-lot-something-else
Barry Goldwater was not "ushering in the New Right" with his Libertarian ideals.
Barry Goldwater was paving the way for George Wallace and Nixon's Southern Strategy.
The rise of the New Right had some connection to the think tanks and political activists that surrounded the Goldwater movement, but that had nothing to do with Goldwater who was simply a vessel for their aspirations to turn back the Great Society and the Civil Rights Movement.
The New Right succeeded because they had demography on their side.
And Rand Paul doesn't.
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