Birchism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Birchism (usually uncountable, plural Birchisms)
- Political ideology espoused by or associated with the John Birch Society, a conservative or right-wing organization in the United States.
- 1964, Daniel Bell, The Radical Right, page 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.
- 1970, Gerald Schomp, Birchism was my Business, page 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.