Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

by Rachel Maddow

Both Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln had expressed hopes that all people of African descent living in the United States would one day be shipped overseas. “The two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government,” asserted Jefferson, who lived in fear of a slave revolt.

“Keep America American.”

Seems like this is a recurrent theme in today’s modern right-wing playbook.