It's interesting how the zombie journalistic myth "Buckley and the right purged the Birchers" survives despite the considerable body of scholarship refuting it.https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch-society-qanon-reagan-republicans-goldwater/ …
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I mentioned that book to Geoff Kabaservice and he was unconvinced. https://twitter.com/tenner_david/status/1518102435805511681 … (I myself think it has too much*post hoc*--the Birchers emphasized issue x in 1970, Reagan emphasized it in 1980, yet most of the people he notes influenced Reagan were not Bitchers.)
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It is the issues championed first by the Birch Society—abortion, support for local police, anti-ERA, tax cuts, and sex-Ed—that built the Reagan Revolution. I always encourage my students to read books before evaluating any thesis.
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1/2 I agree that Dr. Miller's bio of Welch is the best-researched book in decades. However, there are some points which I think he does not correctly address including Welch's numerous cozy relationship with outright bigots like Verne Kaub, Merwin K. Hart and Gerald LK Smith.
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2/2 = No historian seems to understand how often the JBS recommended & sold publications authored by racial & religious bigots including life-long white supremacists & anti-semites (like UK author Nesta Webster who gave a speech entitled "The Need For Fascism in Great Britain"
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