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American Fascism, Fascism features "cults of tradition and cultural…
American Fascism
Home-grown Fascism
Nativism
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"In fascism...what is needed is a total feeling of what is required: a total feeling for the Fatherland....for History" (James Waterson Wise qtd by Churchwell)
"...the Klan could not afford to seem foreign; 'to be effective,' its nativist agenda had to pursued 'in the name of Americanism" (New York Age qtd by Churchwell)
"Fascism's ultra-nationalism means that it works by normalizing itself, drawing on familiar national customs to insist it is merely conducting political business as usual"
"All fascism is indigenous, by definition...the deep roots of anti-Semitic evangelical Christianity provided equally plausible rallying cries for an American fascism"
"Comparisons between the homegrown Klan and Italian fascism soon became ubiquitous in the American press; the resemblance was not superficial"
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The American National-Socialist Party was "working to naturalize Nazism, seeking consanguinities with American symbolism"
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Fascism features "cults of tradition and cultural regeneration...the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing other groups...and a distressed sense of victimhood and collective grievance"
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