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Hi, listeners. This episode will be controversial to some. It could lose me some listeners and gain me some haters.

It might even be regarded since the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump as dangerous or irresponsible, let me be clear, I do not

condone violence. In fact, I reject political violence in all its forms. But I believe that historical

perspective is necessary for an understanding of the present, and that ignorance of the

past or a disregard of its lessons can make us oblivious to the true nature of current events.

I also feel strongly that before the upcoming presidential election, in which, as I've said

previously, I believe U.S. democracy may be in peril.

I must speak out on the historical parallels that I discern, even though I am not the first to do so,

nor might I be the most articulate. Longtime listeners of the podcast won't be surprised by my views.

And those who are, I implore you to listen with an open mind.

In the years between Adolf Hitler's accession to chancellorship in Germany and the outbreak of World War II,

when the threat of fascism and Nazism loomed large on the world stage, many in America did not shrink

from identifying what seemed to be fascist threats at home.

Indeed, there were many in America, especially among the wealthy, who openly admired

Mussolini's brand of authoritarian government, even apparently conspiring to overthrow

President Roosevelt and replace him with a similar strongman leader in a planned

insurrection called The Business Plot or Wall Street Putsch, which I wrote a two-part series

on a couple years ago. And there were outright Nazi sympathizers within the U.S. as well.

The organization Friends of New Germany was actually

organized by the Nazis and run by Nazi agents, and this organization transformed by 1936

into the German-American Bund, which worked tirelessly to promote Nazism and make Hitler palatable to the American public.

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