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the Koch family, has spent (and continues to spend) huge sums to bankroll Birch ideas. David and Charles Koch, the sons of Fred Kochone of the original founding members of the Birch Society
The Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders. William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as idiotic and paranoid. Buckleys condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement. Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy and that the U.S. government was under operational control of the Communist party. Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party. Two years after Buckleys death, the John Birch Society is no longer banished; it is listed as one of about 100 co-sponsors of the 2010 CPAC.
Crazy rightwing kooks
The new John Birch Society | Tampa Bay Times
The Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders. William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as idiotic and paranoid. Buckleys condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement. Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy and that the U.S. government was under operational control of the Communist party. Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party. Two years after Buckleys death, the John Birch Society is no longer banished; it is listed as one of about 100 co-sponsors of the 2010 CPAC.
Crazy rightwing kooks
The new John Birch Society | Tampa Bay Times