Matthew Dallek Author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
The Great Battlefield
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The Origins of Trump-Trumpism
Birche ideas get picked up by a host of politically even savvier successors, right? Phyllis Schlafle and groups like the Moral Majority and Jerry Falwell. They commit to trying to demonstrate to Republican leaders that those leaders better pay attention to them. And slowly, over time and intermittently, Birchers ideas do become part of the Republican coalition.
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