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To: Slagle who wrote (15721)3/21/2007 11:20:52 PM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217655
 
>>>"I cannot think of any nation that would serve as a reasonable example, with regards to the USA and a possible fascist future. Nothing like that has ever happened to a place this large or powerful."<<<

Rome.

Or Roman Empire if you prefer. Which was a long way from "The Senate and People of Rome", the Roman Republic.

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There was a non-internationalist wing of the Republican party, known at times as the "Taft Wing" In a few years after WW II, they were marginalized and effectively kicked out by various forces who were internationalists.

The Nostalgic / Retro take on lefties is dead on. Many of those people don't believe any of what they used to claim to believe, and most don't even know it.