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Part Two: The Birth of American Fascism

Behind the Bastards

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The Fascists Lost Big in 1936

In 1939, the Roe Center for Public Opinion reported that only 39 percent of Americans agreed that Jews deserved equal rights. Ten percent of them believed the government should deport Jewish Americans. Father Coughlin argued that the war was a clash of competing capitalist interests, not a fight to save Europe from the barbarism of Nazi domination.

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