3. The Council for National Policy - but really The Origins of Americanism
In an attempt to wrap his head around the ultra-influential Council for National Policy, the secretive beating heart of the American Right today, Fritz is compelled to just sum up the whole history of Americanism instead, the oft-neglected endemic form of fascism in the U. S. of A.. From the National Association of Manufacturers, through the American Legion, to the Evangelical Right, the story of the CNP isn't only Reaganism, Project 2025, the Rapture and death squads; it's the bleeding edge of American fascism itself!
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Anderson, Scott, and Jon Lee Anderson. Inside the League…
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