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This book does a very good job explaining everything
Wilson resegregated the military, played the movie that spawned the kkk revival, Birth Of A Nation, at the whitehouse, he jailed whomever he wanted, his propaganda campaigns inspired Goebbels
It was so so so bad
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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He resegregated the federal gov
time.com/7320794/segr...
He put a confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confede...
He played birth of a nation in the whitehouse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bir...
This is a fantastic episode of @hcrichardson.bsky.social
I have also felt that the 1920's would define what MAGA feels the limits are, not Nixon
The 1920's were defined by Woodrow Wilson, and it gets so unbelievably bad that the Nazis cite them as inspiration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKU...
stuff that happened under Wilson's presidency that influenced everything that came after (1920's are immediately after)
institutionalized usgov propaganda
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
four minute men, as shortform, personal propaganda
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Mi...
If anyone is The Jim Crow President, it is Wilson
And Jim Crow was important inspiration for the Nazis
www.history.com/articles/how...
PBS also did a fantastic documentary about WW1, and they bring up a lot of Wilson's atrocities
pbs.org/greatwar
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The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
The media are still feeling the impact of an executive order signed in 1917 that created 'the nation's first ministry of information'
www.smithsonianmag.com
pbs.org
Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.
