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Leif E. Vaage

Leif E. Vaage taught New Testament studies at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto before retiring. He now lives whenever he can in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, with his wife Susan Slater, tractor-lust, and a growing flotilla of needy boats. His previous book of poetry is Schooled in Salt (The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2003).

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America already had Fascism in Jim Crow; is the Trumpie Dream a Totalitarian Amerika?

America already had Fascism in Jim Crow; is the Trumpie Dream a Totalitarian Amerika?

Leif E. Vaage

Toronto (Special to Informed Comment) – It is widely recognized that the Nazis learned from the example of the United States of America about politics in a racist key. It is important to recall that before the Nazis came to power, there was already the long-standing example of Jim Crow in the Deep South. The […]

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