fascism

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Plots Against America?: Jim Crow was Homegrown Fascism

  by Guy Lancaster

  HBO’s prestige adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America makes it worthwhile to examine whether fascism is really so alien to the United States as many wish to believe.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3/15/2020
  

  ‘The Plot Against America’ is Truer than even Philip Roth Knew

  by PJ Grisar

  Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  "Faster" Author Neal Bascomb on the Jewish Auto Racer who Defied Hitler

  by Neal Bascomb

  Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1/27/20
  

  The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

  by Jill Lepore

  Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

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• 1/5/20
  

  A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism

  by Lawrence Wittner

  In the last decade or so, enormous headway has been made by movements and parties following the old fascist playbook, with rightwing demagogues trumpeting its key elements of virulent nationalism, racial and religious intolerance, and militarism. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• 7/28/19
  

  White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today

  by Adrian Gilbert

  Recently there has been a trend to rehabilitate Waffen-SS veterans from Eastern European countries and to reconsider them as patriots rather than agents of Nazi tyranny. 

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• 4/19/19
  

  The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940

  by Chris Wright

  Michael Joseph Roberto's The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 is particularly timely, as the old structures of American fascism have deepened in the last generation and colonized much of the world. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/19
  

  The New Zealand Shooting and the Great-Man Theory of Misery

  by Jelani Cobb

  Most of the men who committed these recent acts of terror composed manifestos. A sense of history turning on the fulcrum of a single man’s actions is a theme within them. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/17/19
  

  What Historians of Fascism Think About the Suspected New Zealand Shooter's Declaration of Extremism

  Historians Ruth Ben-Ghait and Robert O. Paxton help us understand the tragedy through history. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/19
  

  After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom

  by Richard Gunderman

  People all over the world need to remember that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/7/19
  

  Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

  by Daniela Gomes

  What history can teach us about the election of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. 

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• SOURCE: news.com.au
  11-7-18 (accessed)
  

  Niall Ferguson says Trump is a populist not a fascist

  In a wide-ranging talk the historian speculated that Trump will face Kamala Harris in 2020.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-30-18
  

  Donald Trump borrows from the old tricks of fascism

  by Timothy Snyder

  The idea that the powerful are victims who must be coddled arose in a setting that recalls the United States of today.

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• 11/18/18
  

  The Striking and Disturbing Parallel Between the 1930s and Our Own Time

  by Tom Krentzin

  In the wake of economic turmoil leaders exploited deep fears on their way to power.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  10-19-18
  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin warns Trump is leading America to fascism

  “When the Mueller investigation comes out, we may well see the rule of law being denied, and then we have to go after him.”

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• SOURCE: The Triangle
  6-29-18
  

  Drexel professor says fascism has arrived in the US

  by Robert Zaller

  In an op ed for the student newspaper Robert Zaller says “this country is in the deepest and most awful trouble any of us have known.”

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• 6-26-18
  

  There Are Even More Parallels to the ‘30s and ‘40’s than You Suspected

  by Luke Reader

  History does not repeat itself. Nor does it rhyme. But it does give us insight. We should pay attention.

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• SOURCE: The Spectator
  3-14-18
  

  ‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’

  by Nicholas Farrell

  Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-22-18
  

  The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream

  Italy’s CasaPound has been central to normalising fascism again in the country of its birth. Now they’re trying to enter parliament.