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Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards

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The John Birch Society Hates Communism

In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly found her man in Senator Goldwater. She had a plan to wrench the American right out of the hands of men like Nixon and Goldwater. And she ran an insurgent fight against Nixon to stop anti-discrimination from being added to the Republican Party. The John Birch Society hates communism and explicitly patterns its organization off of communist Vanguard parties because they see that it works.

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