For you youngs, you may not recognize history repeating itself here. Welch refers to Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society:
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While both Buckley and Welch lamented the military and diplomatic setbacks that befell the United States in the early years of the Cold War, they disagreed as to the causes. Buckley attributed policy outcomes such as the stalemate in Korea, Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons, the Communists' victory in China's civil war, and the success of Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in Cuba to misguided policies and lack of resolve among Western leaders. Welch considered them the result of Soviet penetration into the highest echelons of the U.S. government.
And oh yeaa...
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In November 1958, Welch sent Buckley and several others a typed copy of "The Politician," a manuscript he had written. He had numbered each copy and asked that recipients return it to him after they had read it. The work's most startling conclusion was that Soviet penetration of the United States extended deep into the White House and that one of the USSR's principal agents was none other than the president of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower, he concluded, was a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy."
That's right, Eisenhower was a Soviet agent....
And the following sums up not only Welch and the JBS outlook, but exactly describes the current "Q" believers. The statement below is exactly what TBL is stating in his Q communique in a post above:
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In time, Buckley would say that Welch inferred "subjective intention from objective consequences" because things went badly for the United States, policy makers must have intended those results and worked to achieve them;
In other words, the cabals at work.
And even the ardent anti-communist Barry Goldwater was having none of it:
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The JBS founder protested he had sent the manuscript to many people and that only Buckley "completely disagreed" with its hypotheses. However, Goldwater voiced identical objections. "If you were smart," he wrote Welch, "you would burn every copy you have."
You can draw parallels directly from the John Birch Society to the Q phenomena. It's the belief that when things go wrong, it is because of a giant conspiracy full of dark and dangerous persons at the height of power. You know, like Dwight Eisenhower.
This is not hard to understand. When you get two sigma from the political mean, the currency of the that realm is conspiracy theories. Q is just the latest.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/william-f-buckley-john-birch-society-history-conflict-robert-welch/