A few links of what has been going on. Here and here.
This is a repeatting cycle with the Right. The neo-Nazi John Birch society tried to take over the conservative movement in the 1960s. But just as Trump did in 2017, the leading conservatives talked about the good people in the Bircher movement. That the Birchers were a pack of racists, segregationists and antisemites didn't bother them at the time and doesn't bother them now.
There is a persistent and pernicious belief on the far Right that we fought on the wrong side in the Second World War. That those clowns have gotten their man into the Oval Office is a national shame.
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The John Birch Society is the reason that Utah is so solidly right wing. In the 1980s, there was a Mormon leader named Ezra Taft Benson. He was a solid Bircher, and even got in trouble with the other church leaders for preaching Birch ideology from the pulpit. Then he became the leader himself (The "prophet, seer, and revelator" as they say.) He declared in one of his rants that one could not be a good Mormon if they voted for a Democrat. To this day, Democrats in Utah have no chance, because most people in Utah believe that voting for a Democrat is a sin and makes baby Jesus cry.
I remember my parents position on the Birchers, they thought them a revival
of something bad my father inferred he went to war about. He did the Italian
tour from end to end.
Eck!
I received a TSSCI security clearance when joining the military in the early seventies. Had I been a member of the Birchers , that would have been denied. In fact I remember having to review lists of people in several of those type organizations. Just having any close contact with such, was a deal breaker .
Tells you much what our intelligence group thinks of them.
Funny, several of our past and present politicians were on those lists . Yet were elected and consequently received the same type clearances, just because they were elected. Even tho not qualified...
As a item of interest is there seems to be a growing internal battle within
the GOP. Competing factions are creating a ideological split.
Eck!
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