America First and Nazis

This isn't the first time in our history that America Firsters / right wing Christians have joined up with Nazis to bring down the American government.

UPDATE:  David Corn has a nice write-up about the show at Mother Jones.

Maddow sets up the grand sweep of the podcast:

This is a story about politics at the edge. A violent, ultra-right authoritarian movement, weirdly infatuated with foreign dictatorships. Support for that movement among serving members of Congress who prove willing and able to use their share of American political power to defend the extremists, to protect themselves, to throw off the investigation. Violence against government targets. Plots to overthrow the United States government by force of arms.

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Maddow has a talent for resurrecting the dark chapters of the past and turning history into enlightening and entertaining fare that prompts us to think about the present. In 2018, she produced a documentary called Betrayal: The Plot That Won the White House, which showed how Richard Nixon secretly schemed to sabotage Vietnam peace talks in order to win the 1968 election. It was a well-executed chronicling of one of the great acts of political perfidy. That same year, she released Bag Man, a brilliant podcast that told the tale of Spiro Agnew’s corruption.

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In her recently released eight-part podcast, she excavates a troubling piece of history: how American politicians plotted with violent extremists to undermine the US government and advance the aims of a foreign power—that is, the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler.

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A newspaper called PM revealed that sitting members of Congress were helping [a Nazi agent named George Sylvester] Viereck disseminate German propaganda throughout the United States.

  Mother Jones

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