- A. He's dead.
- B. He supports gay rights
- C. They hope to use him as a cudgel against Christians.
Right. All of the above. Behold, the HBO biopic of Barry Goldwater.
Sure, he may have talked openly about defoliating North Vietnam with nuclear weapons, but he wasn't such a monster, goes the revisionist consensus. Look how he hated the religious right and privately loathed Richard Nixon.
