Jeff Roche
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And the Texas Republican Party says, we are going to make our entire identity tied to Goldwater conservatism, which really was
cowboy concertos.
There was the same kind of Western frontier, individualistic, still, you know, uh, responsibility to community politics.
And those, those two elections just build out, uh, the Texas GOP.
And once the Texas GOP becomes this, this powerful force, you know, they begin to move into the critical positions within the national party, uh,
And John Tower becomes a major figure in the national GOP.
And they spread this kind of right-wing conservatism that had lured them into the GOP in the first place across the entire party.
Yeah, Texans loved him.
Texans loved Reagan.
They loved him for a long time.
One of the things I wanted to do with Reagan in the book is so often, you know, he just kind of appears as a political figure in a lot of narratives.
You know, maybe the first time you hear about him is when he gives this speech for Goldwater in 64.
That's kind of the starting point.
And then, you know, the narrative says, oh, people saw him.
Oh, you should have been for governor.
No, you're not for governor.
But he had been this figure on the far right for a long time.
He's giving far right speeches and almost sort of John Birch Society style rhetoric in the late 1950s across Texas.
And so they loved him, you know, long before he became a figure in California politics and politics.
When they finally have their very first Republican primary, which as you mentioned, I closed the book with, Reagan just switched Texas.
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