Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Rachel Maddow
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Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow 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.
That effort worked—tongue and groove—alongside an ultra-right paramilitary movement that stockpiled bombs and weapons and trained for mass murder and violent insurrection.
At the same time, a handful of extraordinary activists and journalists were tracking the scheme, exposing it even as it was unfolding. In 1941 the U.S. Department of Justice finally made a frontal attack, identifying the key plotters, finding their backers, and prosecuting dozens in federal court.
None of it went as planned.
While the scheme has been remembered in history—if at all—as the work of fringe players, in reality, it involved a large number of some of the country’s most influential elected officials. Their interference in law enforcement efforts against the plot is a dark story of the rule of law bending and then breaking under the weight of political intimidation.
That failure of the legal system had consequences. The tentacles of that unslain beast have reached forward into our history for decades. But the heroic efforts of the activists, journalists, prosecutors, and regular citizens who sought to expose the insurrectionists also make for a deeply resonant, deeply relevant tale in our own disquieting times.
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This post has 21 comments with rating of 5/5
October 24th, 2023
This is the non-fiction mirrrorpiece to Philip Roth’s 2004 The Plot Against America.
From outside, it is perplexing how Americans have sometimes ignored, but more often fostered, homegrown attempts to rescind their own liberties, and move the United States much closer to an autocracy.
It’s much more in the open now, since Donald Trump, and it is much clearer who the major players are in the shift away from democracy and the rule of law.
But it’s been there for a very long time, and America is lucky to have survived for so long.
October 24th, 2023
For Prydeful to speak in such a manner, as someone who has denied Brutish genocide & expressed racial slurs;
and then preaching to Americans from the point of view of Brexit, Boris, Nigel Farrago, Covid denial, a beloved class system, snobbery, aristocracy & monarchy - in addition to the genocidal truth of his Brutish empire, slavery, dispossession, exploitation, the use of concentration camps, the operation of an apartheid state, pogroms, & the murder of peaceful civil rights campaigners - it’s very difficult for him to lecture Americans, to be quite blunt.
October 24th, 2023
her show is such a runaway, smashing success, i just HAVE to read the book, dahling…
October 25th, 2023
Maddow is disgusting
October 25th, 2023
I thought that this was going to be about Wilson and Roosevelt followed by Clinton and Obama… Then I saw the author… Waste of a download.
October 25th, 2023
@latt9292, is just made that Maddow’s gets more p*ssy than he does ;)
October 25th, 2023
I bet she does :)
October 25th, 2023
Maddow is the warmongering fascist
October 25th, 2023
Is the Pot calling the kettle black? She caught a bad case of TDS and betrayed any journalistic values she may have possessed.
She only added fuel to the current 21st Century Cold War - denied the findings of the Muller Investigation and has become a deranged warmongering mouthpiece for USA foreign interests.
717.45 MBs of Intellectual Sodomy.
October 25th, 2023
Both political sides in the USSA are fascist. They have a few differences but much more in common. And Maddow is not a journalist.
October 25th, 2023
White guys just can’t stand it when a woman writes a book, notice how they ALWAYS attack the author when it’s a woman… When white women get educated enough, they no longer desire white men and guess how white guys react to this? With threats and anger, OF COURSE, just like how they react to EVERYTHING ELSE….
October 25th, 2023
@koloko
I can’t say I’ve ever had any problem with clever girls, and they don’t seem to have too serious a problem with me (the girl I dated in High School now has a species named after her).
Perhaps you’ve met some poor-grade white guys, I know they are out there somewhere.
October 25th, 2023
What is it with certain leftists that unconsciously project their own attributes/behaviors onto their opposition?
October 27th, 2023
Cannot stand to listen any female book readers!
October 28th, 2023
Maddow is a disgusting fascist meatpuppet
Happily downloading this just to boost numbers
You couldn’t pay me enough to listen to this drivel
October 28th, 2023
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October 30th, 2023
Thanks for sharing
November 7th, 2023
Thank You!
I’ve been waiting for this one.
I’ll make sure to seed.
November 8th, 2023
been looking forward to this one, thanks
November 25th, 2023
@alexa.kriskovic
TDS doesn’t exist. Lying, scheming, and the desire to push religious faith onto your fellow Americans, sadly, does exist.
Fascism, in any guise, should be feared and obliterated with the greatest of passions.
December 19th, 2023
Thank you! :)
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