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:lamo let's talk about them, then
Gosh. Nationalization of major industries and railroads, big on protecting labor, broke off with FDR because FDR was too friendly to bankers. Yeah :roll: that sounds really like the intellectual heritage of American conservatives.
So. What did this individual who was so big on Labor Unions and the Nationalization of big enterprises think about fascists?
Huh. So it turns out that your first cited individual actually makes the argument that fascism was something that appealed to the American left.
Really, in the sense that we use the terms today (and again, this is where "Liberalism" gets' turned on its' head), there wasn't much of a "conservative" movement in America in the 1930's an 1940's. It was the Progressive Era, and progressive assumptions were largely dominant.
Coughlin, as your wiki quotes confirm, began his activist career as a progressive and then moved to the far right, attempting to take working class supporters with him. I don't think there's a lot of evidence he succeeded in taking the 'American left' with him though.
Now then, you wanted to talk about Lindbergh and Kuhn too. So...?