The Republican Party has devolved into an unruly and dangerous coalition of political extremists, anti-government libertarians, right-wing billionaires, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists and Christian zealots with Donald Trump as their great and powerful leader. When this gang is finished, America will look like the early 1900s–those “good old days” when the federal government was tiny, workers had no […]
When Poverty Was Healthy and Americans Were Free
Aren’t They All Dead? When I talk about my experiences inside the John Birch Society, people often tell me, quite emphatically, that the Birch Society has absolutely no influence contemporary politics. Republicans, in particular, can be really hostile when I suggest that GOP Senators, Representatives, and Governors sound very John Birch. “No way,” they say, “Birchers are all […]
New Right-Wing Power in Old Dixie
Bombshell In the summer of 1960, before the John Birch Society reached its 100,000 member milestone, disaster struck. A secret book that was never supposed to be read beyond a small, select group of men (like my dad, William Buckley, Fred Koch, and Barry Goldwater), became public. Robert Welch had written 300 pages analyzing the […]