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Part One: The Birth of American Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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Fascism Loves to Creep Up

In 1921, 12 years before Adolf Hitler would become Germany's all-powerful fewer, the National Socialist German Workers Party had roughly 2,000 members. The first fascist government on Earth was formed in late 1922 when Benita Mussolini and his black shirts marched on Rome with the stated goal of bringing order to an Italy that seemed on the verge of political chaos and collapse. This is more about ideology in sort of how fascism, yeah, now it first crept up in America.

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