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  "text": "The roots of American fascism are innumerable & pernicious, but as someone who watched the 2nd World Trade Center fall in my senior current events class & had friends ship out to Afghanistan not long after our 2002 high school graduation, it's hard not to see the fascist patterns playing out again.",
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        "alt": "From \"Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland\" by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc:\n\n\"Apart from disseminating anti-Semitic pamphlets, the main activity of the British Fascisti in Ireland was to participate in the city’s annual Armistice Day parades and the celebrations of British imperialism that these entailed. The ‘Great War’ and its impact on British society was a major factor in the emergence of a British form of fascism. Many of the earliest proponents of British fascism saw the new Italian ideology as an opportunity to sweep away social and political unrest by returning to an idyllic harmonious past that, they believed, had been shattered by the conflict. According to historian Richard Thurlow: The immediate roots of British Fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the First World War – The mixture of reactionary conservatism and political anti-Semitism … represented a response of those who asked for a stable and hierarchical society based on paternalistic deference. … The First World War was clearly of particular importance to the origins of British Fascism for both its political and cultural roots. This was to be demonstrated by the significance given to Remembrance Day parades from the British Fascisti through to [Oswald Mosley’s] British Union of Fascists [in the 1930s] to the [modern-day] National Front and its splinter groups. The emergence of Fascism symbolised a reaction to the continuing decline of Britain and the developing economic and social problems which had been accelerated by the war.\"",
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