George Wallace’s ’68
For every American won over to radicalism in 1968, there was another captured by George Wallace’s right-wing populism.
Leo Ribuffo teaches history at George Washington University. He is the author of Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War.
For every American won over to radicalism in 1968, there was another captured by George Wallace’s right-wing populism.
Gene in his last years is better categorized as a “man of the Right” rather than as a conservative.