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    1. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      9. WFB made excommunication from the respectable movement a trademark, as w/ the Birchers. But not only were such gestures often made against those Nat. Review had formerly published or employed, they were typically *ineffective* in meaningfully marginalizing popular rw elements.

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    2. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      10. Leading Republicans, not just Goldwater but many considerably to his left, never blanched at engaging with the networks of the postwar hard right, and typically dodged calls to condemn the John Birch Society by singling out Robert Welch personally for criticism instead.

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    3. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      11. A proposed GOP platform plank at the 1964 convention denouncing extremism on the left and the right and naming JBS explicitly ran into opposition not only from Goldwaterites, but also from Dwight Eisenhower and George Romney.

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    4. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      12. There was reason to tread lightly! Credible estimates put peak membership near 100,000 by 1964-65. On the right, important players wore their Birch allegiance openly. It wasn’t just a few fringy congressmen and Ezra Taft Benson and his son.

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    5. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      13. In conservative circles, neither Billy James Hargis nor Clarence Manion, to name two, were marginal or insignificant figures.

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    6. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      14. By the late 1970s/early 80s, moreover, while JBS had declined in #s and organization, the GOP felt less reason than ever to hide or apologize for engaging Birchers. The likes of Dick Cheney and Chuck Grassley gave interviews to the JBS front magazine “News of the World.”pic.twitter.com/6WxNazqneu

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    7. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      14. JBS is just one example of a broader failure on the part of both modern conservatism and the GOP to police their boundaries against extremism and crankery. That’s important as history, as I said, but it’s also a legacy that brings us directly to our current moment.

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    8. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      16. Yes, the history of conservatism is diverse, contains multitudes, and is filled with heroic stories of noble dissents from unscrupulous turns. But the “noble dissenter” part is key to the story, from conservative critics of McCarthyism to Never Trumpers today.

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    9. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      17. The broad indifference to the task of policing boundaries, and the more specific *ineffectuality* of those cons & Repubs who've attempted to do so (including the '60s heroes of Kabaservice’s own, great “Rule and Ruin”), are central themes in excavating the road to Trump.

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    10. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 10 Sep 2018

      18. Despite Kabaservice’s own book-length contribution to telling that story, his historiographical tsk tsk-ing takes us off the main task. /end

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Sep 2018
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      Yeah, the whole story of Buckley versus John Birch Society is much more complicated than potted version @RuleandRuin uses. Among other things, key trigger was JBS turned against Vietnam war.https://newrepublic.com/article/122804/national-reviews-trump-dilemma-kick-him-out-keep-his-fans …

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