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Birchers - How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right (Hardcover)
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Birchers - How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right (Hardcover)
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How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on
a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch
Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a
paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a vast
communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential
threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian
Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society's extremism remade
American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who
were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality
appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized
that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, and for
decades the GOP courted Birchers and their extremist successors.
The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the
Republican establishment and electing Donald Trump. Birchers is a
deeply researched and indispensable new account of the rise of
extremism in the United States.
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