Birchism
nounEtymology From Birch + -ism.
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US, Usually A political ideology espoused by or associated with the John Birch Society, a conservative and right-wing organization.
- 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.1964, Daniel Bell, The Radical Right, page 234:
- […]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.1970, Gerald Schomp, Birchism was my Business, page 84:
- Related terms
- anticommunism, Bircher, Birchist, McCarthyism