Schlafly entered the national stage when she independently published "A Choice Not an Echo," a 120-page questioning declaring Barry Goldwater as the voice of genuine conservatism against the Northeastern liberal foundation. At the point when Schlafly supported Trump 50 years after the fact, numerous preservationists, including a portion of her most passionate admirers and relatives, pondered about the apparently unexpected move from Mr. Preservationist to Trump, a man of changing and on occasion undiscernible belief system.

However the distinction was not as jostling as it initially showed up. The flag consistency in Schlafly's political viewpoint was her significant restriction to the Republican Party foundation and globalism. She spoke to a grass-roots populist notion that questioned party elites, internationalism and associate private enterprise. Schlafly took advantage of this conclusion in "A Choice Not an Echo" and her battle against the ERA, and she demonstrated amazingly capable in adjusting double fidelities to the Republican Party and a grass-roots base enticed by outsider competitors.

"A Choice Not an Echo" verbalized Schlafly's argument against the "kingmakers," made out of money related premiums who looked for a "meeting" between the gatherings. Schlafly contended that this gathering hosted controlled the get-together into designating applicants who were not genuine Republicans: Alf Landon in 1936; Wendell Willkie in 1940, Thomas Dewey in 1944 and 1948. She shied far from charging the well known Dwight D. Eisenhower of being a kingmaker hopeful, yet it didn't take many findings for some hidden meaning when she contended that the 1952 assignment had been stolen from preservationist Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio.