 select their nominees, but also affects how Republicans do so. And that third-prong process produced George McGovern as the nominee in 1972, who promptly got crushed by Richard Nixon. That encouraged quite the backlash against these reforms. Some of the old guard were quite explicit about not wanting to embrace a European model of the party. They didn't want a membership system. They didn't want the party discipline. They didn't want the centralization. What did they accomplish and what didn't they accomplish?