Fascism has not suddenly burst onto the scene in the US with the election of a single president.

Wernher von Braun at Peenemünde in 1941, and at NASA in 1970.
In the late 1970’s, my father co-owned a strip mine in northern Alabama. There was a labor dispute, I never knew the exact details, but the local KKK was supporting the union. The dispute wore on quite awhile until, as my father told it, a few clansmen took him into a shed on the property, held a gun to his head, and told him to get his yankee ass out of the state. Not long afterward, we moved back to Detroit. Continue reading