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Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
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Here's a letter from one of the Countess's friends to Pedro del Valle in which she fondly recalls "that day she said 'Why don't we kill them all?' How we laughed. She was so cute and so honest...I'm still searching for more evidence that Rocky [Nelson Rockefeller] is a Jew." By "them" she meant Jews

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Wow.

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Countess Guardabassi lived in a mansion 4 miles north of Mar-a-Lago. Throughout the 1950s and 60s she would regularly host parties like this where wealthy white "conservative" Christians would sit around and "joke" about killing all of the Jews in order to "save America" from Communism.

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As a multimillionaire, couldn't she have afforded printed stationery rather than used the stickers you used to get free for contributing a few bucks to the March of Dimes?

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Oh. My. Word. Will I ever not be gobsmacked by the handwritten letters you uncover from not-so-long-ago decades?

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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
16.1k followers2.3k following10k posts