The GOP’s Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers

NUTS ABOUT ‘NEEDLE NAZIS’

The “brown shirts” with the audacity to knock on your door and try to save your life are being compared to apartheid supporters and Hitler.

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Published Jul. 9 2021 4:58AM EDT

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In order to preserve the conservative movement’s credibility, William F. Buckley excommunicated the John Birch Society, relegating their crackpot conspiracy theories to the fever swamps of American politics.

Six decades later, paranoid

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The GOP’s Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers

The “brown shirts” with the audacity to knock on your door and try to save your life are being compared to apartheid supporters and Hitler.

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