Part One: How Orange County Incubated American Fascism
Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz.
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
- https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/
- https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/
- https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joseph-e-schmitz-foreign-policypentagon-dod-germany-wrong-doing-439239
- https://archive.is/qkm9c
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/
- https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176662608/a-historian-details-how-a-secretiveextremist-group-radicalized-the-american-rig
- https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/29/republicans-orange-county-california-228110/
- https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20181105/281483572392685
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Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz.
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
- https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/
- https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/
- https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joseph-e-schmitz-foreign-policypentagon-dod-germany-wrong-doing-439239
- https://archive.is/qkm9c
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/
- https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176662608/a-historian-details-how-a-secretiveextremist-group-radicalized-the-american-rig
- https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/29/republicans-orange-county-california-228110/
- https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20181105/281483572392685
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-01-09
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