The John Birch Society was immediately marginalized by the Democrat Left in a concerted effort to paint it as an ultra-radical right wing organization. The group has survived for half a century but not until the last few years has the Republican party felt brave enough to allow it to participate in its workings.
8/25/2014
AUGUST 25
On this date in 1945, my birth year, just after the official end of World War II, Chinese Communists killed a Baptist minister who doubled as an American intelligence officer named John Morrison Birch. Thirteen years later, in 1958, an anti-communist organization was formed in the U.S. which espoused limited government and chose as it's name The John Birch Society in his honor.
The John Birch Society was immediately marginalized by the Democrat Left in a concerted effort to paint it as an ultra-radical right wing organization. The group has survived for half a century but not until the last few years has the Republican party felt brave enough to allow it to participate in its workings.
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The John Birch Society was immediately marginalized by the Democrat Left in a concerted effort to paint it as an ultra-radical right wing organization. The group has survived for half a century but not until the last few years has the Republican party felt brave enough to allow it to participate in its workings.
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