the answer to "does america have experience with fascist mass movements?" is "yes, the fucking klan!"
My father weirdly bragged about being in the same graduating class with David Duke. We're not close.
The Klan was one of the biggest political organizations in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Governor Walton tried to strip them of their power. Here are some headlines from Black newspapers at the time.
I saw a thing about pro-Nazi rallies in the US during WWII, and now wondering about the overlap with the Klan
I used to worry that we'd get right wing death squads administering extrajudicial murder to perceived enemies, then I remembered the Klan was a thing and didn't feel any better
reading up on redlining here in sw ohio led to just barely scratching the surface on the number of suburbs that owe their existence to race-based restrictive covenants. i knew about the deliberate segregation but not how enormous (and apparently prestigious) the local klan rallies were
The groups were dealing with today are just rebranded Klansmen
stumbled on this while channel surfing. Wonder why PBS decided to air this now … www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
Nazi Town, USA tells the unknown story of the German American Bund, a 1930s pro-Nazi group with chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country. Many believe the Bund represented a real threat o...
And before World War II, the German-American Bund was one of the most successful pro-Nazi organizations in the United States. On February 20, 1939, American Nazis gathered at Madison Square Garden for a mass rally for “true Americanism.”
Was the original Klan just as fascist (avant la lettre) as the second Klan, and was it influential on early 20th c. Eutopean fascism?
I was in my 30s before I found out that for a time, the KKK ran a few towns in downstate IL.