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

Behind the Bastards

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Goldwater - The Right Drink for the Conservative Tastes

Goldwater regularly packed in a dozen rallies per day flying around the country in his Boeing 727. One of Goldwater's more famous quotes can be seen as a precursor to both the kind of sociopathic libertarianism practiced by Charles Koch and the ideology of Ronald Reagan. "I do not undertake to promote welfare for I wish to extend freedom," he once said.

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