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birchers and a
bircher smoothie.
Incredibly, she noticed that some of the signatures on the pro-Con-Con petitions were actually
Birchers she knew personally.
Wading into a slippery morass of fellow travelers, free-love intellectuals, rabid John
Birchers, and charismatic evangelicals, Ellie must navigate old grudges and Cold War passions, lost ideals and betrayed loves.
Since
Birchers believed that Communists dominated US foreign policy, they concluded that the Vietnam War must be wrong, a logic that positioned them with quite unlikely allies.
As Haubner says, "A lot of pissed-off people wind up at our monastery." His own seeds of violence were planted by a father who made and sold gun barrels, enmeshing his family in a subculture of John
Birchers, urban warfare survivalists, and the religious right.
Before that, they were John
Birchers, McCarthyites, even the Know-Nothings of the 1850s.
The
Birchers were single-mindedly obsessed with communist infiltration, a fear that's largely gone out of style; the Arkansas Project crowd seemed motivated more by cultural issues and a burning personal hatred of the Clintons than by policy matters.
Equally important, the magazine worked to discredit fringe elements like the John
Birchers, the Jew-haters and the Lindbergh isolationists.
Conservatism was thought to be a negligible force, hovering somewhere in the narrow frequency band between the Goldwaterites and the
Birchers. And such marginalization felt like validation for conservatives, since it demonstrated the immense, implacable power of the liberal establishment, k also left them free to give up thoughts of electoral success and to focus instead on conspiracy theories about Dean Acheson being a communist agent.
John
Birchers and Christian Fundamentalists battered sex education in the schools.
To make matters worse, Goldwater's campaign did attract some boosters who seemed barely tethered to planet Earth, from John
Birchers who thought Eisenhower was a communist to hardcore racists who praised the murder of civil rights activists.
The congressman also fears that federal environmental regulations are ushering in the one-world government long feared by the
Birchers. Her evidence: the United Nations' designation of Yellowstone National Park as a world heritage site.