Matthew Dallek Author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
The Great Battlefield
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The Rise and Fall of the Republican Conservative Establishment
The end of the Cold War is a big, big deal because it opens up space politically for isolation. I would also point to 9-11, which at first, tamps down some of these America first anti-interventionist ideas. And so the country and the world changes in some really important structural ways over decades that help popularize those ideas.
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