One time i was walking

…fascist movements take on the coloration of their host culture, using their symbols and trappings … In America, as Robert O. Paxton has brilliantly argued, fascism would be pious, patriotic, and well groomed. It would demonize internal enemies (the left, liberals, minorities) and external enemies (Muslims), call for national purification and regeneration, and advocate litmus tests of national and religious loyalty (Pledge of Allegiance, crèches on courthouse squares).

—Lawrence Powell, writing about the rise and fall of David Duke, also-ran Governor of Louisiana, ex-KKK wizard, and Holocaust denier. Read.  (via theamericanscholar)

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