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

Behind the Bastards

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The John Birch Society Is a Fascist Movement

Robert Welch wrote every word of the society's bulletin for years, which by 1967 meant more than a million published words. One supporter complained Welch has turned what claimed to be a militant anti-communist movement into a book selling operation. Glenn Beck, the most influential ideological founder of the Tea Party, was also raised on John Birch books. The modern propaganda videos are called the dangers of democracy and defines democracy as mob rule.

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