Birchers : how the John Birch society radicalized the American right
"Founded in 1958 by a small band of anti-New Deal businessmen, the John Birch Society held that a vast communist conspiracy existed within America and posed an existential threat to the country. Birchers railed against the federal government, defended segregation, and accused liberal elites of conspiring to destroy the country's core values -- Christianity, capitalism, and individual freedom. Shunned by the political establishment and mainstream...