The historical episode of US lawmakers in the 1930s giving speeches written by Nazi propagandists, mailed to constituents on taxpayers' dime, is a forgotten but revealing chapter showing how conducive America was to fascist sympathies during the Depression; modern conditions do not remotely approximate this state.

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lawmakers who were making speeches that were written written by Nazi propagandists and then mailing them out to their constituents on uh the taxpayers dime and it's sort of this like forgotten episode

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Are We All Authoritarians at Heart?New York Times Podcasts
Created: 8/10/2026, 9:56:08 PM

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