Goldwaterism

English

Etymology

From Goldwater +‎ -ism.

Noun

Goldwaterism (uncountable)

1. A political stance associated with the more extreme right-wing positions of Barry Goldwater.
   • 1991, E.J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics: Death of the Democratic Process:

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

   • 2011, Steven Gregory, Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community, page 72:

     “We must decide how to use these machines most effectively,” a letter sent to residents noted, “Goldwaterism must be defeated” (Independent Citizens, 17 October 1964).

   • 2015, Lee Edwards, Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution:

     It spoke of the "ill-advised attempts" to substitute Goldwaterism for Republicanism and presented an apocalyptic vision of the senator's positions.

Related terms

• Goldwater Republican
• Goldwaterian
• neoconservatism