Part One: The Birth of American Fascism
Behind the Bastards
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Coughlin's Anti-Semitism
By 1934, Coughlin was pissed at the Democrats and announced the start of his own political party. The NUSJ was open to people of all religions as long as that religion was Christianity. By the end of 1935, membership in Coughlin's Union was somewhere between 1 and 8.5 million people. They had great early success but he really turned up the anti-Semitism.
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