The real question, or one of them in this situation, would be how in the world did the Democrat Party wind up in this situation? A year later, in November of 1964, LBJ went on to overwhelm the GOP’s conservative hero Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, leading a unified Democrat Party. — this was the opening of a cultural Democrat split that has never gone away. There, per the far Left voters of today, the Party remains exactly as Senator McCormick has labeled it: “This is a party that’s anti-law enforcement. What Senator McCormick has described exactly is a Democrat Party that is everything he has quite accurately described.