“Since the nation’s founding, politicians of all stripes have demeaned and denounced their rivals as unpatriotic and a peril to the people’s livelihoods and personal safety. And yet in the early 1960s the Birchers injected politics with a level of rancor toward liberal opponents that further coarsened the atmosphere in the public square and set the stage for more.”

Birchers
Matthew Dallek
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