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Part Two: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right

Behind the Bastards

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Why Do You Hate Earl Warren More Than Anyone in Your Life?

The moral majority's primary founding goal was to stop oral Roberts University from having to take black students. Bob Welch told The New York Times his goal was to quote, stir up a great deal of interest among conservatives in the dangers that face this country. He started like giving people thousands of dollars to write essays about why Earl Warren is the devil. It's a racist to the bottom if you only if only he hadn't got Frankfurter.

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