Rey walks us through the first part of David Austin Walsh's book Taking America Back, which is centered around Hart's career in the 1933-1953 period. Merwin was a "liminal figure of the US right-wing", able to meet the president in the White House, but also to work together with known fascist "crackpots" (Coughlin, G. L. K. Smith, Wesley Swift...).
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The Empire Never Ended