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The John Birch Society is “fringe”? Not at all, it had a big voice back in the Fifties—the very “Again” in MAGA.

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...back when America was Great! Polio, no Voting Rights Act, gays were officially mentally ill and/or criminal, women knew their place... good times

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Polio—that was an honest fear (terror, actually) and the rest as you show. l’ll add antisemitism too and, oddly, prejudice against Roman Catholics. I survived hiding in the library … where manly men feared to tread.

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