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A member or supporter of the John Birch Society, a conservative anti-communist American organization founded in 1958.
‘But Moore is a hero to the Birchers because of views that are not expressed in the book.’
‘But Buckley's task was easier than Beinart's will be because the Birchers were never remotely as central to the Republican base as the Moore-MoveOn faction is to the Democratic base.’
‘Beinart is bravely trying to do for liberalism what another magazine editor - the National Review's William Buckley - did for conservatism by excommunicating the Birchers from the conservative movement.’
‘William F. Buckley and other mainstream conservatives spent years isolating and discrediting the Birchers.’
‘The Birchers wanted to destroy both social security and the UN back in 1962.’
Origin
From the name of John Birch, a USAF officer and ‘first casualty of the Cold War’, killed by Chinese communists in 1945.