Prior to World War II, antisemites and Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. plotted to set up a Hitler-style dictatorship in America. Rachel Maddow says we are seeing another threat to democracy from the ultra-right today.
It may be hard to fathom that some 20,000 Americans would gather under an image of George Washington for a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. But Rachel Maddow has spent the last few years sifting through similarly sobering stories for her new book, 'Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism' . It's a cautionary tale about threats to democracy set in the era of World War II.
That conspiracy theory, said Maddow, 'was part and parcel of trying to run Americans into feeling about the Jews the way Hitler was making Germans feel about the Jews.'And Hitler had plenty of tentacles in the U.S., including right on Riverside Drive in New York City, where George Sylvester Vierek lived in a beautiful ten-room apartment.
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