BIRCHERS AS PRECURSORS OF THE MODERN WINGNUTS

In  THE STRANGE TACTICS OF EXTREMISM (1964) the authors noted one aspect of the radical right which is still with us 50 years later:

For one thing, the Communist use of language is related
to a supposedly inevitable "great day" that lies somewhere in
the future; but the Radical Rightist use of language is related
to a sense of impending disaster. To borrow a term from
James Thurber, the outlook to which it is geared is "doomshaped."