Chapter 1: Goldwater for President (1960–1968)
While conservatives were viewed as eccentrics on the far right of the Republican Party, the ultra-conservative Senator Barry Goldwater was, to everyone’s surprise, nominated as the Republican candidate for the 1964 presidential election. He lost, but the conservative movement had shaken off its lethargy.
THE SERIES (3X52')
USA. 1980. Long before it was co-opted by today’s conservative and Trumpist movement, the slogan “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) was coined by Ronald Reagan following his victory in November 1980.
Marginalized for years, the conservatives who finally took power wanted to do away with the state, social welfare, feminism, and everything they deemed responsible for America’s decline.
Their agenda—economic, traditionalist, and revolutionary—would change America and the world, with effects lasting to this day.
A conservative revolution that took root in the 1960s and 1970s, a period during which American society was turned upside down.
This series offers a deep dive into these two turbulent, radical, and formative decades.
