Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism

At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par…

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