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1. MAGA right's new fascist man-crush: He's been dead for 50 years

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 12:42 PM

Yesterday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016417756

As Dan Kaufman observes in a fascinating essay for the New York Review of Books, Francisco Franco — the pompous, cunning self-appointed “generalissimo” who crushed the democratic-socialist Republic in the Spanish Civil War and ruled unchallenged over a Western European nation for 35 years — has recently become the focus of “renewed admiration” on the American far right. .....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/16/maga-rights-new-fascist-man-crush-hes-been-dead-for-50-years/

These are the horrors MAGA is endorsing

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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My Mother's Story: Free Spirit, Activist Teen Locked Up, Drugged, Re-Educated, 1969 Spain Franco Fascist Dictatorship [View all] appalachiablue Yesterday OP

MAGA right's new fascist man-crush: He's been dead for 50 years DBoon Yesterday #1

Renewed admiration, horrors, exactly. People better realize the dangers to freedom. Tx for posting.. appalachiablue Yesterday #2