The Birth of Neocons: Peace Through Strength

... ideologues - lost to Jimmy Carter. The Republican candidate Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter as well. This caused a merger between the Goldwater's right-wing Republican ideologues and the Jackson’s ideologically-driven democrats. They all believed in Kraemer’s theories. That is how they came together to be the neocons. They helped to elect Ronald Reagan and had a great influence on his presidency. Reagan was the first one to take the theory of provocative weakness and call it “peace through strength”. And we now hear that echoed through this current ...