Jonathan Alter on MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart following Ted Cruz’s announcement speech:
“This was a really strange combination of John Lennon and Barry Goldwater. ‘Imagine all the people.’ But the real question is: Is this 1964 when the Republican Party decided it would go with its most extreme candidate? Remember, Barry Goldwater said that year ‘extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.’ So, that’s the Ted Cruz message, ‘extremism is good. Red meat is good.’ He pushes all the buttons he can. Abolish the IRS. Not reform the IRS, abolish it. This is radical political material. And we’ll see how it plays. I wouldn’t assume that it doesn’t.”
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