A History of Fascism in America

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated whether Trumpism should be seen as an outgrowth of American conservatism or of a darker – and potentially fascist – tradition. Fascism in America contributes to this debate by examining the activities of interwar right-wing groups like the Silver Shirts, the KKK, and the America First movement, as well as the post-war rise of Black antifascism and white vigilantism, the representation of American Nazis in popular culture, and policy options for combating right-wing extremism. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Buy Fascism in America here: https://bookshop.org/lists/swaj-recommends-october-2023 Subscribe now to American Idols: https://www.axismundi.us/american-idols/ To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC SWAJ Book Recommendations - September 2023: https://bookshop.org/lists/swaj-recommends-september-2023/edit Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi. You're going to be here. Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi faculty at the University of San Francisco.
0:34.9	Joined today by just a fantastic guest, someone who I'm just getting to know and that is Dr.
0:40.0	Gavrille Rosenfeld, who is president of the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Dr.
0:43.0	Rosenfeld, who is president of the Center for Jewish History in New York City,
0:45.0	professor of history at Fairfield University.
0:48.0	Somebody who received his BA in History and
0:50.0	in Judeic Studies from Brown and then his PhD at UCLA. So I'll just say Dr Rosenfeld, thanks for being here.
0:55.6	Thanks so much for having me.
0:57.6	Well we're here to discuss a new volume that you co-edited with Dr Janet Ward of the University of Oklahoma and that
1:06.5	volume is called fascism in America and there's just some incredible contributions in this volume of essays and just a lot to talk about.
1:17.3	I want to start here and it's really where you and Dr. Ward start in the beginning in the
1:21.9	introduction which is setting the kind of context for discussing
1:26.2	fascism in America.
1:28.2	There have been many debates over the last say eight years, don't know starting in 2015 for some reason
1:35.7	about whether or not fascism has come to America whether it is rising in America and
1:40.3	there have been historians scholars political scientists on both sides.
1:44.6	Some you call alarm is saying it's here, get ready because we are we are in full of bone fascist
1:51.4	America.
1:52.4	Other saying actually if you look at what fascism is and its historical
1:56.0	definitions and iterations, we're not there, I'm sorry.
1:59.4	And the intervention that you make is to say it would really help in this debate if we're trying to
2:04.0	discuss fascism in America if we historicize this because lo and behold there is
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