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

Behind the Bastards

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Welch's Propaganda Empire

Bob Welch is the figurehead of a lot of it. But like a lot of those early CEOs from the National Association of Manufacturers probably I would suspect had a bit more to do with some of the crafting of these ideas. That sounds oddly similar to some country I remember right around 1930. A country that Bob Welch probably would have been pretty heavy. Pretty stoked if they had stayed the course, you know?

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