𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 🇺🇸

In 1964, following the electoral wipeout of Barry Goldwater's campaign, young conservatives in the House successfully ousted the Republican leadership and installed Gerald Ford as House Minority Leader (which would inadvertently propel him to the presidency a decade later). The Democrats wound up taking massive losses in 1966, erasing all the gains they had made since the tail end of Eisenhower's presidency. And then of course, Nixon won in 1968. A significant number of the "Young Turks" wound up in the Nixon administration. Probably the most famous "Young Turk" aside from Ford himself was Donald Rumsfeld, who was a congressman from Illinois at the time. Yes, at the beginning of his career, Rumsfeld was considered a rebel in the GOP. Dick Cheney also came up as part of the "Young Turks," working under Rumsfeld when he joined the Nixon administration and becoming Ford's chief of staff after Rumsfeld was promoted to Secretary of Defense. (Interesting fact: Cheney began his career as an opponent of the Vietnam War. There was an article in the late 2000s, I want to say from MOTHER JONES, that suggested Cheney's repeated heart attacks gave him brain damage and influenced his slide into neoconnery.) The boomercons have been cleared from the board like the old GOP was cleared in 1964. Susie Wiles is 69, Stephen Miller is 41. There is no better time for patriots to move in than now.