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

Behind the Bastards

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It's Good Shit, or Cult Shit

"He blazes a trail, a bad trail. It's a trail to like one of those, like somebody septic tank has flooded into a depression in the earth and created like a little lake of feces" "It's simultaneously a tactic and something that I think happens just it happens automatically when you're doing that," he says about creating front groups for communism. 'You assume everyone else's because you don't want to have your are we the baddies moment? No, no'

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