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Reagan assumed leadership of American and Republican Conservatives beginning in the 1960s. Goldwater had been in that position. However, the loss in 1964 and Reagan's rise to power in 1966 cemented the latter as the figurehead of American Conservatism. American Conservatism would come to reflect Reagan far more than the libertarian Conservatism of Barry Goldwater.

Assuming Reagan does not amount to anything, who else could fill that role? And what would happen without Reagan?
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