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Part One: How Orange County Incubated American Fascism

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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:

  1. https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/  
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html 
  3. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html  
  4. https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/  
  5. https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/  
  6. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joseph-e-schmitz-foreign-policypentagon-dod-germany-wrong-doing-439239
  7. https://archive.is/qkm9c  
  8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/  
  9. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176662608/a-historian-details-how-a-secretiveextremist-group-radicalized-the-american-rig  
  10. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/29/republicans-orange-county-california-228110/
  11. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20181105/281483572392685  
 
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