Barry Goldwater's Country Is Going to Be Better for You

The John Birch Society is too controversial even among Republicans for Goldwater to embrace them, but they have created an incredibly organized and effective way of terrifying people on the right about communism. So he can't ignore them either. You don't want to become their enemy and then be called a communist. But at the same time, you don't want people to think you're their champion. That's why 1969 had so many protests and revolutions. It was ants pants. Mao never would have come to power without those underpants.