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Topic: John Birch Society

Sign at Stratton, Colo, Shows Damage From Attempts To Destroy It Erected by the John Birch Society, billboard calls for impeachment of Earl Warren. Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)

Before Trump and QAnon came Robert Welch

Kathryn Joyce
QAnon Shaman | William F Buckley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The myth of Buckley and the Birchers

Cormac Kelly
Christopher Leonard's NYT Bestselling book, "Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America" (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/ Lars Niki/Getty Images for United States Olympic Committee/Simon & Schuster)

Welcome to "Kochland": Hell or utopia?

Chauncey DeVega
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-730744p1.html'>isak55</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Are you ready for an Epoch Fail?

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
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Members of the John Birch Society (AP Photo)

John Birch Society's impact on politics

Christopher Towler - The Conversation
Charles Koch; David Koch (CBS/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

The Kochtopus is extending its tentacles

Jim Hightower - Alternet
A member of the Ku Klux Klan in Hampton Bays, New York on November 22, 2016 (Getty/William Edwards)

What is "white supremacy"?

Anis Shivani
Edmund Burke; Charles Montgomery Burns, William F. Buckley, Jr. (Wikimedia/Fox/AP/Nancy Kaye/Photo montage by Salon)

Conservative thought, RIP

Andrew O'Hehir
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Trump's bircher budget chief

Matthew Rozsa
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Fake news, before Facebook

Matthew Sheffield
(AP/Mary Schwalm/John Duricka)

How paranoia poisoned the GOP

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Chuck Burton)

White nationalism's everywhere

Chip Berlet - Washington Spectator
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George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Bush on Bush

Luke Brinker
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., David Koch (AP/Evan Agostini)

Charles Koch's affront to MLK

Joan Walsh
(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon)

Obama is Stalin

Elias Isquith

False flags explain the right

Arthur Goldwag
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George Wallace (AP)

My parents are right-wing nuts

Claire Conner
Supporters of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, rally at the University of South Florida Sun Dome on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Ron Paul's rowdy sideshow

Michael Tracey
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