Alex should, instead of bringing up Byrd, he should be bringing up George Wallace, considering that he was a hardcore segregationist, as he famously said, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Wallace was a gigantic racist, and he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way up to 1976.

So many of Alex's spiritual ancestors were George Wallace supporters. Gary Allen, the guy who wrote Alex Jones' favorite book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, served as Wallace's speechwriter during both of his presidential campaigns. Now, he did, though, agree with Eisenhower that he should have sent that. Sure. George Wallace's campaign deployed rhetoric that mirrored that of the John Birch Society. And he actually said, I have no problem with the John Birch Society. And his staff was full of birchers. And he almost chose a notorious bircher, Ezra Taft Benson, as his running mate. Benson, as a prominent Mormon and anti-communist, provides a link to W. Cleon Skousen. The George Wallace campaigns for president are inexorable from the swamp from which Alex's worldview emerged.