philip_cardella, 25 days ago @nicholas_saunders @Vonskinnback @rameshgupta @benroyce it was the Blackshirts in Italy first leading to Mussolini's rise in 1922. Hitler, Franco, Tojo, Pétain, and others by 1944. And of course Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin and others wanted to do it in the United States and had plenty of help from the resurgent KKK. I'm not sure what Orwell has to do with it.
@nicholas_saunders @Vonskinnback @rameshgupta @benroyce it was the Blackshirts in Italy first leading to Mussolini's rise in 1922. Hitler, Franco, Tojo, Pétain, and others by 1944.
And of course Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin and others wanted to do it in the United States and had plenty of help from the resurgent KKK.
I'm not sure what Orwell has to do with it.