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[Fascism in] United States

"Donald Trump and the Ku Klux Klan: A History"

In the so-called Business Plot in 1933 Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims. In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible.

During the 1930s Virgil Effinger led the paramilitary Black Legion, a violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that sought a revolution to establish fascism in the USA.[2] Although responsible for a number of attacks, the Black Legion was very much a peripheral band of militants. More important were the Silver Legion of America, founded in 1933 by William Dudley Pelley, and the German American Bund, which emerged the same year from a number of older groups, including the Friends of New Germany and the Free Society of Teutonia. Both of these groups looked to Nazism for their inspiration.

While these groups enjoyed some support, they were largely peripheral. Two other leaders, Huey Long and Charles Coughlin, sparked concern among some on the left at the time. However, Huey Long did not take on any such role because he was not a fascist. Father Charles Coughlin, who publicly endorsed fascism to an extent that Long never did, was unable to become involved in active politics because of his status as a priest.[3] Other fascists active in the US included the publisher Seward Collins, the broadcaster Robert Henry Best, the inventor Joe McWilliams and the writer Ezra Pound.

In the modern United States, fascism is politically 'toxic'. It is understood that calling someone a fascist is an insult, and mainstream politicians will strongly dispute such a description as applied to themselves. Many politicians or movements have been accused of fascism, generally but not exclusively by those to the left of them. For example in 1966 Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel said of the Conservative movement, "A fanatical neo-fascist political cult in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear, who are recklessly determined to either control our party, or destroy it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America#United_States

So 50 years later, here we are.

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Is the KKK fascist? .. bit ..

Current KKK activity comes primarily through alliances with Neo-Nazis and other non-KKK white nationalists & supremacist groups, which are increasingly assimilating the KKK into their own style. A lot of other white nationalist groups, especially Neo-Nazi ones, look down upon the KKK as disorganized, uneducated, pillow-case wearing clowns, and have overshadowed the KKK in the US. It's hard to talk about the KKK as an independent entity anymore; although there are of course local chapters, they have not had as much influence on white supremacist culture or made many gains or achievements since losing the civil rights battle. .. http://anarchy101.org/4611/is-the-kkk-fascist

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Just in case someone is extremely worried about seeing that Donald's father was in the NYT .. regarding the KKK .. .
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