Inspired by her research for the hit podcast “Ultra,” Rachel Maddow (not Jewish) charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it. It was a sophisticated and shockingly well-funded campaign to undermine democratic institutions, promote antisemitism, and destroy citizens’ confidence in their elected leaders, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. government and installing authoritarian rule.
— Amazon.com
Quote: “During the 1930s, paramilitary organizations with names like the Silver Legion, the Christian Front, and the American White Guard planned acts of domestic terror, aiming to create chaos as a pretext for fascists to seize power. Nazi fetishists like Philip Johnson — later an acclaimed architect — set out in search of an American Hitler. (Johnson’s choice was the Louisiana senator Huey Long.) Others promised genocide. ‘There will be more Jew corpses cluttering up American gutters,’ vowed the American White Guard founder Henry Allen, “than ever were found in the most ambitious European pogroms.’ ”
— The New York Times
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