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Originally Posted by Namath12
Friendly reminder that noted American hero Charles Lindbergh was a Nazi-sympathizing anti-Semitic piece of ****
Other American elites and business leaders of the period were Nazi sympathizers or Nazi curious (Henry Ford, Walt Disney, William Randolph Hearst as noted in that tweet).
Recommended reading is Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton:
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Fasci.../dp/1400033918
Really everyone should read this, given the current moment in our politics; but he makes pains to point out that fascists went to great lengths to behave as if they were a genuine working class party when most of the members of the party were the middle class, upper class and the elites.
It's easy to forget that Nazis have become the cartoon super villains of history, but that they had a measure of support in America among certain people and where it came from.
Also note that history has put fascist aggression as front-and-center as one of the main underlying causes of WWII, and obviously so. It feels so obvious that we forget that at the time, it was a point of contention where exactly the rising tensions in Europe was coming from. One of the very powerful tropes of Nazis and fascists during the 1930s and early 40s that they were essentially peaceniks who wanted nothing but self-determination and that their opponents were consistently war-mongering. You might amuse yourself in a dark-humor kind of way going back and listening to fascist rhetoric of the 30s like Lindbergh's ("the Jew media wants war!") and how say contemporary Trumpkins described Hillary Clinton and 'globalists' love of war while they at the same time imaging fantastical ways George Soros and the UN are undermining American sovereignty and where all that mentality leads to.