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Back when America had a great tradition (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 months ago by TehBamski to c/politicalmemes

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[–] MakunaHatata 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Also: Americans hold a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden

[–] xenoclast 5 points 6 months ago

Rookie numbers. Alt Right rallies nowadays pull in way bigger groups. They just suck at pageantry.

[–] mmagod 3 points 6 months ago

Less than 100 years ago

[–] PugJesus 3 points 6 months ago

In some cases, police responded to the protesters with violent attacks. In one instance, a protester escaped a mounted police officer who’d grabbed him by punching his horse in the face. As the rally broke up that night, some protesters were able to slip by police and punch departing Nazis in the face.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks. I was going to come in to burst that bubble. A ton of Americans were totally sympathetic to fascists until we went to war with Germany and it became unfashionable. But they didn't change their politics, they just didn't call it fascism anymore.

Notice America didn't have a problem with Franco and you didn't hear a lot of Americans denouncing him since he wasn't part of the Axis powers.