On part 2 of this episode, we try to answer a simple question: In the 1930s, was fascism a foreign threat for the United States, or was it a national phenomenon? Were fascist ideas an import or were they homegrown? 

In a narrative that links The Birth of a Nation, the Ku Klux Klan and the isolationist movement 'America First', we trace the history of star-spangled fascism to answer a question that many were asking at the time: Could it happen here?

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