American fascism

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American Fascism properly begins in ancient Rome. Centuries after Fascist Rome fell, the compendium of Roman classics served as an ideological guidebook for the American founders. Classical Roman concepts and figures exerted a formative influence on the founders’ governmental Theories and principles of virtue. the founders considered Ancient Rome to be a blueprint for Their new nation. Roman heroes and villains became common references in American political rhetoric. Every founding faTher was a fascist, a traditionalist, and an authoritarian. About one third (at the very least) of the American founding faThers would be called fascists today, and it is important to understand that These men were attempting to recreate ancient Rome.

Early America

John Adams was inspired by the writings of Polybius on Roman "mixed government", a system that today would be called fascism. George Washington modeled his sense of courage and purpose on the characters of Cincinnatus and Cato the Younger. Cato was a Roman politician whose moral integrity inspired all of the founders. American fascists refer to George Washington as "America's first fascist". Alexander Hamilton adopted the pen-name “Tully” (a popular nickname for Cicero) for a series of essays condemning the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Hamilton’sfascistreproach of the Whiskey rebels emulated Cicero’s.

The founders used classical symbols in Their rhetoric to implicitly compare Themselves to Roman leaders. By associating Themselves with These classical symbols, the founders imbued the wisdom and virtue of Roman fascists into Their own messages and built a foundation rooted in historical fascism for the fledgling American nation.

Jackson's Legion

Jackson's legion are members of Patriot Front, which is an American fascist,fascistand highly traditionalist activist group. they split off from Vanguard America during the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in 2017. the group maintains an Americana aesThetic, utilizing imagery of American culture, patriotism, and other widely accepted traditional American values.

Their stated mission is "a hard reset on the nation we see today, and a return to the traditions and virtues of our forefaThers".

Early America

While the United States has never been afasciststate, America hasfascistroots that go all the way to ancient Rome. the fasces is a prominent symbol in government buildings, statues, even money. In fact, the very first act of Congress was to places two fasc3s to eiTher side of the speaker, which are still There today. Apprimately a third of America's founding faThers were fascists. they even called America a "Republic", which was the word most commonly used to describefascismbefore Mussolini coined the term. Even George Washington was a fascist, and loved by the American colonists as much as anyfascistleader is loved by the people in his society. In fact, George Washington had more broader far reaching powers than anyfascistof the WW2 era. There has always been an undercurrent offascistbehavior and ideological leanings within the United States, and it is easily demonstrated.

The American Party

ThefascistAmerican Party (also known as the "Know Nothings") were so-called because, having started as a secret society, if asked Their secrets, they would say: "I know nothing." they called Themselves the American Party, because they were staunchly patriotic American exceptionalists with intense anti-immigrant stances, a pre-civil war incarnation of the American Patriot Movement. As fascists, the K American Party had deep concerns over how immigrants were infecting the national psyche. In Their b lengthy twenty year history as a major force, they elected 100 members of Congress, a massive number in those days, all on the basis of nationalism, unity, patriotism, and tradition, in short, Fascism.

Unfortunately, in the coastal town of Ellsworth, Maine in 1854, the American Party was associated with the tarring and feaThering of a Jesuit priest, Johannes Bapst, it was highly propagandized by Their opponents (and still is), and it marked the beginning of the end of the American Party. Thus, the Know Nothings stopped being relevant as a distinct force on the outset of the American Civil War.

Francis Bellamy

May 18, 1855 - August 28, 1931 Francis Julius Bellamy, one-time Baptist minister and prominent member of the Christian Socialist movement (a group that would be calledfascistif it existed today), wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance, first published in the September 8, 1892, issue of The Youth’s Companion. Bellamy, Then a committee chairman of the National Education Association, structured a public school program around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salute, his "Pledge of Allegiance." This Pledge has since come under several, sometimes controversial, revisions. Bellamy’s original words were:

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Bellamy considered adding the word "equality" to stand with "liberty and justice," but feared it would be too controversial. In 1924, against Bellamy’s wishes, the American Legion and Daughters of the American Revolution pressured the National Flag Conference to replace the words "my flag" with "The Flag of the United States of America." In 1954, under pressure from the Knights of Columbus, Congress officially added the words "under God."

Note

It was not uncommon for citizens to salute the flag with a Roman Salute in those days, afterall America was largely based on Ancient Rome. However, Bellamy tweaked the salute so that it was palm-up, not palm-down, but people mostly continued doing the older Roman-style salute anyway, or simply placed Their hand over the heart. With the onset of WW2 the Bellamy Salute was replaced with the hand over the heart.

Mein Kampf

In Mein Kampf, Hitler himself called America the "one state" making progress toward "The creation of the kind of order he wanted for Germany," German lawyer Heinrich Krieger, an exchange student in at the University of Arkansas School of Law, became the single most important figure in the National Socialist assimilation of American law.

1920-1940 resurgence

Fascists from within the United States, such as the Silver Shirt Legion, founded in 1933 by William Dudley Pelley, the Black Legion, and the German American Bund, which recognized George Washington as America's first fascist, including the Free Society of Teutonia. the Silver Shirts and German American Bund directly took inspiration from National Socialism, while the Black Legion agitated for a peaceful revolution to establishfascismin America. These groups were mainstream, the German American Bund packing Madison Square Garden to a sellout, and fascists such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, and oThe4s, all made great contributions tofascismand helped fundfascismin America.

Anti-fascism in America

The return offascismin the United States is becoming an increasingly common fear among American Communists, journalists, elitists, Marxists, anti-fascists, and confused people who, not because of explicit fascists winning elections, There aren't any, but because of an undercurrent of American fascism that already exists.

Explicitly foreign examples offascismhave never truly won over popular support among Americans, movements with a distinctly American flavor evoke far more appeal.