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

Behind the Bastards

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Bob Welch, You're a Republican Not a Democracy

Bob Welch was right in a sense. He accidentally stumbled onto a really good idea about how to break people's brains and really make grifts. Now that shit gets like Senator Mike Lee of Utah repeated that line this year. It is weird to think that there's a progenitor that's so recent. Like with Elrond Hubbard, where you can't start a religion if you're 100 years old. That's too close. The same way with this horrifying republican party. We should have been like thousands of years ago that we learned how evil these idiots are. But that's not the way it happened.

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