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The anti-communist, anti-globalist society has worked on the fringes since the 1960s. Has its influence outgrown its membership, or are the Birchers poised for a comeback?
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The truth is far more interesting. It shows that extremism in America s conservative movement has ebbed and flowed since the 1950s, yet never disappeared. Buckley claimed to have vanquished the Birchers, acting as the gatekeeper of American conservatism. Yet when Barry Goldwater became the first conservative presidential nominee of a major political party in 1964, it was the Birchers, not Buckley, who played the key role. The Birchers had a profound impact on American conservatism, a fact Buckley wished to expunge. He wanted to make conservatism respectable. To acknowledge the influence of the Birchers would be an admission of failure.
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