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Does the WWII Internet of Japanese-Americans Provide a Model for an American Fascism Under Trump?

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Japanese-Americans in front of a poster with internment orders.

In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," host Robert Scheer sits down with fellow USC Annenberg School for Communication professor Richard Reeves.

Reeves, a longtime journalist, recently published a new book, "Infamy: The Shocking Story of Japanese American Internment in World War II." Using this knowledge, Reeves examines the parallels between president-elect Donald Trump's rhetoric and that used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.

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Robert Scheer is editor in chief of the progressive Internet site Truthdig. He has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy (more...)
 

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