Word: birchism
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...into bitter crusades to save the state's political soul. California now claims more inhabitants and wealth than any other state, and the incredible population influx has uprooted political traditions and machinery as ruthlessly as it has the landscape, Into the void have flowed numberless partisan cults, from the Birchism of range Country to the Negro Communism of the Los Angeles ghetto...
...university and colleges creates constant turmoil. In March came a typical blowup when Morton Borden, associate professor of history, made a militant speech in Minnesota before the Farmers Union Central Exchange. Borden charged Governor Babcock with hostility to consumer cooperatives, adding: "Montana will remain a backwater of Birchism while the rest of the country progresses." Ordered to investigate, Newburn told the regents that Borden failed to "exercise appropriate restraint," but had a right to speak. The Governor advised Borden to leave Montana because "he scoffs at free enterprise and belittles the state that pays him. I might remind him that...
meeting with newsmen, he switched the subject to Democratic extremism. Said he: "Their extremist group is the Communist Party elements. Their problem is in the form of Communism, not in the form of Birchism. That has been historically true. In the last 30 to 35 years, they [the Communists] have worked themselves into positions of importance not only in Government, but into the ranks of the party. I think that Communism is still a problem in the Democratic Party." Was Romney implying that Michigan's Democratic Party is presently infiltrated by Communists? Romney hedged: "It's difficult...
Nixon's problems with the extreme right of his party reflect more than an ideological split. Californians reject the give-and-take game which most people consider politics, in favor of much more devious routes to power. The conspiratorial flavor of Birchism, rather than its philosophy, reflects this penchant--as does the elaborate scheme worked out in 1958 by ex-Senator Knowland for putting himself in the Governor's Mansion (and then, presumably, in the White House) and Goody Knight in the Senate. Knowland's scheme crashed around him, and like a defeated putsch-ist he has retired from politics...
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