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Bob Welch and his inner circle, the guys who got to read The Politician, were the kind of rich and powerful men who saw any refusal of the people of the world to bow to their whims as communism.
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The Politician by Robert Welch is a controversial 287-page book written by the founder of the John Birch Society, in which the author argued at length that Dwight D. Eisenhower was a dedicated, conscious agent of a communist conspiracy who had served communism throughout his adult life. Robert Evans discussed the book across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards to illustrate the extreme conspiracy theories and paranoid worldviews held by Welch and his inner circle. Evans noted that Welch began working on the manuscript in 1954 after being inspired during a car ride in New York with a friend. Furthermore, Evans explained that the publication became infamous among contemporaries, pointing out that Time magazine famously dubbed the work Welch's Mein Kampf and expressed fear that its militant rhetoric was closely tied to the formation of political goon squads. When discussing a historical newspaper report by Eng, Evans mentioned that the piece primarily focused on The Politician and Welch's bizarre theories regarding Eisenhower because those outlandish claims were the easiest aspects to mock. Ultimately, Evans used the book to demonstrate how wealthy, influential men of that era viewed any global resistance to their desires through the lens of communist subversion.
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Robert Evans Bob Welch and his inner circle, the guys who got to read The Politician, were the kind of rich and powerful… 5
“Bob Welch and his inner circle, the guys who got to read The Politician, were the kind of rich and powerful men who saw any refusal of the people of the world to bow to their whims as communism.”
“Eng's piece mostly focused on the politician and Welch's wacky theories about Eisenhower because that was the stuff that was easiest to mock.”
“Time magazine dubbed The Politician Welch's Mein Kampf and noted with fear that its militant words and thoughts are barely a goose step away from the formation of goon squads.”
“In 1954, Welch started work on what would become one of his most consequential books, The Politician. He was inspired to write it during a car ride in New York with a friend.”
“The reality is that he was so obsessed with this idea that he wrote an entire 287page book titled The Politician laying out the case that Ike was a quote dedicated conscious agent of the communist conspiracy who had been serving communism all of his adult life.”
