The Atlanic: "Ted Cruz, Leninist"

[All Along The Watchtower]

The Republican Party is controlled by a relatively small number of right-wing ideologues and demagogues who trace their (anti-) intellectual roots to the John Birch Society era of the  late 50s and early 60s. They are a Cold War relic that, now that the Soviet Bloc has been vanquished, are turning on what's left of the liberal welfare state and other aspects of the liberal intellectual Establishment at home.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Worth noting that the John Birch Society and other "movement conservatives" studied and mimicked the techniques of Communist organizers.