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

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The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by a group of right-wing businessmen who'd basically been mad since the New Deal. Author Matthew Dalek says one of the key things that we need to understand about the Birchers is they were quite rational and educated. Three of the founders of the Bircher Society were former presidents of the National Association of Manufacturers.

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