Continuing on into the Awakening - and for that matter unsuccessful movements - there is this speech from Ronald Reagan in 1964. "A Time for Choosing" was given by Ronald Reagan in support of the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. A televised broadcast of the speech was made on October 27, one week before the election.
It is perhaps not the most exceptional version of an Awakening speech. It was given by a member of the then-current Hero generation, was not associated with youth, and was not for a particularly popular cause. There are some religious allusions - Moses and slavery, Jesus and the cross, a joke about how "a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth." In its own way, it does take on and oppose powerful interests, by challenging then-popular notions of the place of government in American life.
It did not help Goldwater much, who ended up losing by one of the widest electoral college margins ever. The speech is seen as launching Reagan's career - he would soon after be governor of California - and helped ignite the perception of him as a great communicator, as he put forth an alternative view of the future of the United States. He would be elected president 16 years later.
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