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Robert Welch
November 23, 2021
Chris Lehmann
We All Live in the John Birch Society’s World Now
In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.
March 8, 2021
Rick Perlstein
,
Edward H. Miller
The John Birch Society Never Left
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe
April 2, 2012
Geoffrey Kabaservice
What William F. Buckley Would Think of Today’s GOP
February 23, 2010
John B. Judis
The Republican Obama
September 16, 2009
Ed Kilgore
What the Tea Party Folk Are Reading
December 25, 1961
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