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"Nazi Town, USA" is a 2024 feature in PBS's American Experience series. It looks into the surprising degree of influence which Nazis had in the United States in the 1930s. There were even Nazi summer camps for kids.
It can be viewed (probably for a limited amount of time) at the series link above. Here's a preview...
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To explore the topic more deeply, check out Rachel Maddow's excellent 8-episode podcast Ultra.
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast
Ultra has somewhat more emphasis on Nazi attempts to penetrate government.
Those espousing Nazi-friendly views in the 1930s did not disappear when the US entered World War II and fascism became very unfashionable. Those half-hidden feelings hibernated and occasionally emerged from time to time to poison discourse and endanger democracy. There are obvious echos of that movement today.
In the spirit of the Ides of March, let us take a moment to reflect on why we celebrate it.
Caesar was an influential man who sought to be a dictator of Rome. There were those who saw this as a danger to democracy as it was in those days and decided 'he will not be king/emperor/dictator. '
Caesar has been dead for well over 2000 years. He is no longer a threat to democracy. However, there are fiends in positions of power in the modern day, just like Caesar.
Fiends like Netanyahu and Putin, who wield their power to cause as much destruction as possible. Fiends like Trump, who, given the chance, would crown himself King and wreak retribution on those who sought justice for the crimes he committed in and out of office. Weaklings, like Biden, who simply 'go with the diseased flow' to neither stir up trouble nor progress society for the better. Other dictators doing gawd-knows-what whether it appears in the news or not.
These are your modern-day Caesars. While it is much harder to bring down dictators today than it was in ancient Rome, they are not invincible. They can be brought down. They will be brought down. You can do it.