During the McCarthy era, some on the right attacked leftists who had fought fascists before World War II. Fighting Nazis in the war was fine, they said. But if you’d been active against Franco before that, you were suspect as a “premature antifascist.”https://twitter.com/rschooley/status/1048634910267854848 …
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Replying to @KevinMKruse
Who said the Fascist in the Future will claim they are Anti-Fascist? Churchill said it in the 40's. Another little history lesson. And here we are.
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“The problem with internet quotes from Churchill is that some of them are not real and the credulous fall for those if they fit their preconceptions.” —Albert Einstein
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