Part Two: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right
Behind the Bastards
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Barry Goldwater - A Great, Great Dude
Barry Goldwater energizes a new Republican base that had never particularly felt like it had a voice in politics before. Hunter S. Thompson was there at the 1964 RNC on assignment as a stringer together quotes from Republican politicians. He was basically like hanging out in VIP rooms drinking Barry Goldwater's liquor.
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