Vrenn
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They already have this morning. SouNazi thinks we commies under our beds like the Birchers 70 years ago.
Funny how the ones that created the progress from the John Birch Society to the hijacking of the Tea Party to todays MAGAt.
The Birchers & the Trumpers
There are even some blood ties between the Birchers and the modern far right: one of the business leaders Welch assembled to create the Birch Society was Fred Koch, the father of Charles and David, who became longtime donors to conservative causes.
Welch’s first anti-Communist tract was published by Henry Regnery, the founder of the Regnery Press, which still specializes in books by conservative authors such as Ann Coulter and Josh Hawley. And Roger Stone, admittedly a questionable source, once told an interviewer that Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was a quiet funder of the Birch Society and a friend of Robert Welch.
Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society
- the “gradual surrender of American sovereignty to various international organizations,” of which the United Nations is the outstanding example;
- the centralization of power in Washington, D.C., which resulted in the “practical elimination of our state lines“;
- the “steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system, leading to complete federalization of our public education;”
- liberal news media through which “gullible Americans more readily swallow as true” that communism is a “glorious system;”
- using the term “civil rights” to ignite the “flames of disorder;”
- and the fluoridation of public drinking water as a means of instituting socialized medicine and imposing vaccine mandates to control the population.
What made the John Birch Society popular was its appeal to conspiracists who saw the government as the enemy. Welch even went so far as to call Dwight D. Eisenhower a “dedicated conscious agent of the communist conspiracy,” a charge that infuriated Eisenhower.
Conservatives eventually came to despise the John Birch Society. William F. Buckley wondered how its members could tolerate “such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.”
Yet today, Robert Welch’s dream of taking over the Republican Party and imposing an authoritarian-style regime has come to pass. Writing in The Bulwark in 2022, Robert Tracinski declared: “The Birchers are back. And they’re winning.”
Tracinski noted the signs of conquest were everywhere: a belief in “the machinations of a secret cabal that controls everything from the intelligence agencies to the schools,” the “rapid spread of crackpot theories to otherwise normal and respectable people,” the disarming of conservative critics as “weak-kneed appeasers handing over the country to its enemies” and an “uneasy balancing act of conservatives in the media and in politics who don’t want to denounce the crackpots for fear of angering their party’s base.”
There it is folks. I was one of the original supporters of the Tea Party when it was first created. It practiced supporting the Constitution of the United States and to get leaders who also supported this. Unfortunately, it was infiltrated and taken over by the John Birch Society and the grand ideals that coincided with our original Founding Fathers was all but thrown out.
