I don’t have time right now to corroborate this. Also, if you rely on .world News/Politics, start checking modlogs on removals, they’re gobsmacking. A particular mod likes to remove threads as a sneaky way to rm comments.

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    I would not be surprised if this is true.

    I am surprised that Rachel Maddow of all people managed to do something useful for once in terms of reporting.

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      To be fair, her podcast, “Ultra” is very good. It’s a history of the “America First” movement from the 1930s through the 60’s. Like we love saying USAmerica is fascist, imperialist, whatever, all true; but the actual formal american fascist movement, the mainstream politicians and business owners who were like “we love Hitler, fascism is the future,” like totally out in the open, I was not aware of that history at all, and I’m an USAmerican who studies history.

      Her team had to go into all these archives to dig up the recorded history of this movement, from pre-ww2 through McCarthyism.

      I was surprised that Maddow had such a good podcast, def recommend it