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American Fascism: Then and Now

TALKING POLITICS

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The Relationship Between European Fascism and American Politics

As the clan was rising in 1921, 1922, people across America were saying, what is this thing? Because they hadn't necessarily even been taught about the first clan. And lynching was on the rise. It was spreading north. There were lynchings in Minnesota and California in the early 1920s. They said, if you want to know what the clan is, look in Italy, because it's exactly what Mussolini is doing with his group that are called the fascist,.

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