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Birchism
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English
Etymology
From en Birch -ism.
Noun
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en US A political ideology espoused by or associated with the John Birch Society, a conservative and right-wing organization.
en 1964 Daniel Bell The Radical Right 234 An important symptom of the difference between McCarthyism and Birchism is the shift in the geographical center of gravity. This is a move from the Middle West to the Southwest.
en 1970 Gerald Schomp Birchism was my Business 84 one or the other side accused me of being a cleverly planted Communist aiding and abetting Insiders who had penetrated the inner chambers of Birchism.
See also
en Birchist Bircher McCarthyism anticommunism
en eponyms