This is the fountainhead of 2Oth Century American conspiracy theories. Name checks Hofstadter. Older "deep states". Repub Party barnacles and tentacles.

[David Morris]

I don’t understand what you mean when you say you hope Miller’s biography
of Welch is wrong (I didn’t see mention of Perlstein or “mail order
guy.”).  I’m a bit familiar with Birchers, and think it makes perfect sense
that their paranoia (a discredited fringe back in the 70s) has become
mainstream Right today.  Q and Birchers would make perfect bed-mates.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 11:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rick Perlstein gives a lot of spaces and history to the mail order guy's
> base of work, aggregatable to the present.
> I hope this biographer is wrong
>
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