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- adjective politics Showing the beginnings of
fascism
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Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Wexley first proposed the key politicizing change — shifting the site of the manhunt from the Caribbean to South America — after reading a State Department White Paper by Cordell Hull that exposed Juan Perón's Nazi sympathies and his establishment of a protofascist police state in Argentina.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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The most obvious minions of Berlin were fascist or protofascist intellectuals who had been at war with French democracy long before the armistice.
Collaborative Artists Mark Falcoff 2009
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In an exchange that is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Crossfire, the protofascist organizers try to recruit the soldiers into the veterans 'group — if they can demonstrate that they are not Jews, Catholics, or Negroes.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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In response, some Spaniards have lurched rightward toward the national-Catholic, protofascist ideology of Franco's time and become increasingly vocal within the conservative Partido Popular.
Heirs to Fortuyn? 2009
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The dictator Windrip is modelled less on Adolph Hitler than on Louisiana demagogue Huey Long (though the name "Windrip" is also a scatalogical spoof on protofascist Gerald B. Winrod), while the demagogic priest, Bishop Prang, is clearly taken from Father Coughlin.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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He spent a lot of time in the late nineties covering separatists, UN conspiracy types, Christian Identity groups and other protofascist organizations in America.
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Unlike communist regimes, the fascist and protofascist regimes were never proclaimed as godless by their opponents.
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Unlike communist regimes, the fascist and protofascist regimes were never proclaimed as godless by their opponents.
Anti-Christian Bigots Move From CityLink To Hyde Park Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics.
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