"Beginning in the 1980s and Continuing On, His World Has Become Ours"

"If you're looking for the roots of today's bizarre conspiracy-and-anger-driven politics, you need to look further back than the presidency of Donald Trump or even the rise of social media or talk radio—back to the accusatory, inflammatory, wild-eyed rhetoric of the John Birch Society in the 1960s and 1970s."

Edward H. Miller at the Los Angeles Times argues that "[t]oday, all of us are stuck on the roller coaster of Robert Welch's political imagination, and we can't get off."