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#159 The John Birch Society was the Original Moms for Liberty

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The Afterlife of the John Birch Society

Dalek: By labeling opponents inside the U.S communists or communist sympathizers, you can mobilize American, some Americans to get active in the struggle for power. It's not quite the KKK but the KKK certainly adopted some of those same conspiratorial ideas and racist ideas," Dalek says. "Ultimately it's a more apocalyptic anti-establishment mode of politics" The burtures faded from view in part because people and organizations pushed back, he adds.

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