The American Two Party system

[Dill]

(03-09-2023, 05:36 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: This was a true story where the GOP made Charles Lindbergh their figurehead and they were isolationists.    This was during the pre-WWII area when members of the GOP worked with Nazi Germany to promote anti-war propaganda to keep us out of WWII.  Many members of the GOP in congress were arrested and charged with Sedition, but then Pearl Harbor happened and this was mainly forgotten about.    You can google Nazi Germany rallies at Madison Square Garden and you'll see pictures of many members of the GOP in attendance as well as Lindbergh as the key note speaker.  

HBO had this as a mini-series and if you're into Podcasts look up ULTRA by Rachael Maddow and she'll tell you this largely forgotten story the GOP wants swept under the rug. 

https://rephonic.com/podcasts/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra

It was worse that you say here, when you add in the Christian Front.

At one point they actually raided a NY Armory to get BAR's and other military weapons--with the help of the guard commander. 

Their plan was to take down Congress and the WH in a violent coup and install a fascist, anti-socialist dictatorship,

but the FBI arrested them in Jan 1940, I think, 

https://web.archive.org/web/20221102145719/https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983717
https://web.archive.org/web/20221021031441/https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/old-resentment

They were indicted, but aquitted and their stolen guns returned, when the sympatheitc jury judged them not guilty.

In the U.S., taking down violent right wing organizations has been difficult. Required a civil war once, and they still won
the peace.

(lol Bigdaddy beat me to it--jusst saw after I posted this.)