Bircher

A member of the John Birch Society, a rabid ultraright-wing anti-communist pressure group responsible for many of the wild conspiracy theories that defined the presidency of Donald Trump. Birchers are characterized by a unique brand of anti-communist hysteria that permeates their worldview, causing them to view things like public education, the UN, NAFTA, the civil rights movement, the Equal Rights Amendment, and Article V conventions to amend the US constitution as tools of communism and the New World Order. Though the Birchers' influence peaked in the 1970s and they later became viewed as wack-jobs, many of their ideas have become foundational to the Trump-era and post-Trump Republican party, in part because of the efforts of Birchers like Alex Jones.