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Part Two: The Birth of American Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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The America First Committee

In 1940 and 41, fascism in America was not quite willing to give up the ghost. Americans were pretty anti-Semitic, but most people's anti-Semitism wasn't violent. The goal of America first then was to unify the anti-interventionalist right with the actual fascist right.

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