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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right SS_Gift_Guide when Rome was a muddyHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Societys activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, Birchers believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Societys extremism remade American