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An American politician, Goldwater was a decisive figure of the modern right in the United States, defending free markets, anti-communism, and limited government, and paving the way for Reaganite conservatism.
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Barry Goldwater leans further toward private than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where Barry Goldwater stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Barry Goldwater sits close to the catalog median.
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A doctrine combining a minimal state in taxation, regulation and morals with strong armed forces and an armed citizenry: national defense is the one expanded state function, treated as the condition of civil liberty rather than its exception.
A movement born online in 2022 that argues for accelerating AI, energy and innovation through the market and without regulation, treating technological progress as a moral imperative and rejecting advocates of slowing down.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
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PlatonismFar-Right34%
An Objectivist philosopher, Peikoff was Ayn Rand's principal intellectual heir, systematizing Objectivism and defending reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism as the foundations of life and morality.
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A state with no income tax, led by Republican Joe Lombardo and a Democratic legislature. It runs on gaming, tourism, and mining, with abortion to 24 weeks and cannabis legalized by popular vote, and gaming under state regulation.
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The American frontier after the Civil War, with expanding railroads, mining and ranching, wars against Native peoples, local justice and sheriffs, widely carried firearms and little federal presence.
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