Part One: How Orange County Incubated American Fascism
Behind the Bastards
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz.
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
- https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/
- https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/
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- https://archive.is/qkm9c
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/
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