@HeerJeet Yes, but you're missing the isolationist/goldbug elements. VERY populist, and it starts, even peaks in the '30s.
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@jledbetter Sure, but I see that as "the Old Right" as distinct from 1950s New Right. Some overlap but there is something new born in 1950s2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jledbetter JBS notion that Eisenhower was a commie is a good example of new gestalt. Old Right hated Wilkie but didn't see him as commie2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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@jledbetter Of course they denied it - it's absurd as a factual point but works as myth: it speaks to larger truth (or supposed truth).2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@PhillipsPasha@HeerJeet I thought it was mostly symbolic/convenient, don't know too much more about Birch than that.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@PhillipsPasha@HeerJeet Don't know betrayal. I thought it was settled that Chinese Coms stabbed him after war's end. Didn't read FOIA book.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@jledbetter @PhillipsPasha Relatedly, JBS heavily promoted POW/MIA cult during both Korea & Vietnam. Part of stabbed in back mythos.
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