"Additionally, in their exhaustive examination of the tea party movement, political scientists Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto argue that Obama's election instigated the rise of today's far right. Much like how the John Birch Society arose as a rejection of progress on civil rights, tea party supporters felt anxious about what they saw as the 'real' America slipping away when the country chose a black man to be its president."
Christopher Towler at The Conversation marks the sixtieth anniversary of the John Birch Society.
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