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

[Mark Kohut]

Wrong in its belief that today is worse, I did not make clear.

....yes, his case linking Welch to much of the present is strong as a
safe.....

I added the line about Perlstein because I did not want to check the name
of the mail order guy in the book and review....Vigourie, or like that.....
My mentioning Perlstein is just an allusion to his four-volume masterpiece
(imho), Before the Storm, Invisible Bridge. Nixonland and the other in which
he does a masterful job of tracing Republicanism and its conspiracy
creations river through the decades (largely through all the campaigns from
before they were even campaigns, four years at a time).....as one reads
Perlstein, one can firm up the belief that Republicanism can only keep
going on fantasy conspiracy connections....over time...

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 12:24 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n01/colin-kidd/big-stick-swagger?utm_campaign=20220108icymi&utm_content=20220108icymi%20CID_933d47949b4b77267ac2d8bbfaa8abcd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&utm_term=Read%20more
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