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Preview of American Fascism

in Ex-Facebook

Once, on Facebook I wrote:

The event was attended by a crowd of roughly 20,000 people, nearly all of them Americans sympathetic to Kuhn’s cause. With its swastikas and unapologetically racist rhetoric, cheering crowds and barefaced appeals to US patriotism – including a massive, stage-centre portrait of George Washington – the footage from the event is jarring and surreal to watch today.

https://aeon.co/videos/what-would-american-fascism-look-like-a-1939-new-york-rally-offered-more-than-a-hint