(December 23, 2015 at 2:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Ku Klux Klan was very strong in the '20s. People didn't "flock" to them, but they were a presence. Same with Father Coughlin's Catholic-Fascist crap.
And there were enough budding Communists and leftover anarcho-syndicalists from the 20s to poise a counterweight. Not to mention the other right-wing political movements which were around.
I didn't think I needed to mention the Communist Party of the United States.