“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in
the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a
Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His
method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist
the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how
best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and
his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots,
but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.
They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and
vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is
directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the
state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the
common man in eternal subjection." - Henry A. Wallace (New York Times, April 9, 1944)
