Rachel Maddow on America’s history of fighting fascism
Apple News In Conversation
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Maddow is best known for her show on MSNBC. But she’s also a serious history buff. In her latest book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Maddow lays out the rise of a dangerous antidemocratic movement in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s and how Americans stopped that campaign from flourishing. Maddow spoke with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about this forgotten piece of history and what it can teach us about responding to threats to democracy today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimita Basso. Today, Rachel |
| 0:09.5 | Maddo on America's history fighting fascism. Hi Rachel, I'm here, |
| 0:13.4 | I'm here. |
| 0:15.4 | Hi Rachel, I meet the here, nice to meet you. |
| 0:23.6 | It's really nice to meet you, thank you for doing this. |
| 0:25.4 | Oh, thank you for your time. |
| 0:27.2 | You know Rachel Maddo from her show on MS NBC, where she's |
| 0:35.0 | also a serious history buff. |
| 0:38.0 | There's a reason I think to learn this stuff and it has some real fireworks. |
| 0:42.0 | Last year Rachel came out with a podcast called it has some real fireworks. |
| 0:42.6 | Last year Rachel came out with a podcast called Ultra |
| 0:46.0 | about the rise of fascism in the US |
| 0:48.4 | during the World War II era. |
| 0:50.4 | Now she's out with a book that takes an even deeper dive into that particular chapter of US history. |
| 0:56.0 | It's called Prequil, an American fight against fascism. |
| 1:00.0 | I do think that it's worth being real about the fact that we had an ultra-right |
| 1:07.0 | nationalist, anti-democratic, pro-fascist, in some cases pro-Nazi movement that was of |
| 1:12.0 | considerable size and considerable influence here in the |
| 1:15.8 | United States in the lead up to World War II. |
| 1:18.8 | Some of the themes might sound eerily familiar. |
| 1:21.9 | Insirectionists who try to overthrow the government, |
| 1:25.0 | popular figures who use their platforms |
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