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

Behind the Bastards

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Is the Tea Party Taking Over America?

Barry Goldwater was not an outlier. Richard Nixon, the next Republican president, would turn out to be the most liberal of the modern era. Tea Party members drew heavily on Goldwater's libertarian policies and shaping the GOP's platform.

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