[rdb3]

The John Birch Society is not a serious player in mainstream conservative politics, and hasn't been for over a generation.

Didn't the JBS once call Ronald Reagan a communist?

[sinkspur]

Didn't the JBS once call Ronald Reagan a communist?

Back in the '60s and '70s, when the JBS could send a chill up the back of every Area 51 paranoid, labeling your next door neighbor a "communist" was its specialty.

Reagan had arrived when the NEW AMERICAN held his Hollywood past against him, even while he was running for president.

[rightwing2]

Didn't the JBS once call Ronald Reagan a communist?

No the JBS never called Ronald Reagan a Communist. They just said he was the victim of bad CFR leftist advisors that morphed his conservative policies in many areas into something completely different which is absolutely true.

[BluesDuke]

Didn't the JBS once call Ronald Reagan a communist?

The Society's founder, the candy manufacturer Robert Welch, had called Dwight Eisenhower a Communist (his semi-underground tract, The Politician). To which Russell Kirk, the conservative historian/critic, replied tartly, "Eisenhower isn't a Communist. He is a golfer."