.Matt Dallek’s "excellent new history, BIRCHERS, argues convincingly that this 'movement from the 1960s, long thought dead, is casting its shadow across the United States'. — The Irish Times Read more below! irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

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Now reading "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right" by Matt Dallek.

Happy Friday! I went to CPAC and wrote about the return of the John Birch Society - theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Thank you for a great conversation!

This is what people EXPECT headlines to look like if a presidential candidate was threatening dictatorship. And so when the headline is on page A7, and it reads “Trump Speech Turns Rancorous,” people reasonably assume that nothing much is up.

Supporters of Biden's reelection have to defeat two distinct "not a dime's worth of difference" fallacies. One fallacy insists that Biden is no better than Trump. The other claims that Trump's GOP and the old GOP are basically the same. The first fallacy gives voters no...

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When issues of presidential accountability come before SCOTUS, *usually* justices limit themselves to the facts in front of them. US v. Nixon said: "Yes, there's executive privilege, it may have future limits, anyway it doesn't apply here." Nixon resigned 2 weeks later. 1/3

BTW, another failure for Roberts. US v Nixon unanimous. Ditto Jones v. Clinton. This was 6-3 breaking on party lines.

“In the 20th century alone, there were at least six serious failed attempts on the lives of presidents and one on a former president,” write Robert Dallek and Matt Dallek. Read: nyti.ms/3WkDsgT

🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/ Gary LaFree, Matt Dallek & Rachel Kleinfeld about political violence - its part in American history and why it's on the rise. ❓ What should politicians and regular people do in response to political violence? 📻Listen: kqed.org/forum/20101019…

Btw we’ll never shut up about Pikachu

Thanks so much again Matt Dallek for coming on. To learn more about the JBS, check out "Birchers": hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matthew…

We look at the history of political violence and attempted presidential assassinations w/ Matt Dallek, historian and prof. at @gspmGWU link.chtbl.com/onthemedia?sid…

I will say--and stipulating I know nothing about the history of Miller's own family--that I find it particularly nauseating to hear this kind of nativist and exclusionary chest-thumping from a Jew.

conspiracies around fluoridation are some of the first conspiracy theories related to public health Matt Dallek tells me. The John Birch Society, thought fluoridation was a gateway to communism. But, the idea didn't initially get nat'l attn hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matthew…

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