01.09.2024 - By Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Robert sits down with Francesca Fiorentini to talk about how Orange County, California gave birth to the modern Republican Party, thanks to some arms dealers and a howling fascist named John Schmitz.
(2 Part Series)
Sources:
https://cafe.com/article/were-revolutionaries-john-schmitzs-controversial-1972-third-partypresidential-campaign/
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/john-schmitz-is-no-george-wallace-.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-16-me-1902-story.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/thecampaigntrail/comments/115krux/fun_facts_about_john_g_schmitz_not _really_theyre/
https://people.com/crime/mary-kay-letourneau-devastated-when-politician-father-was-caughtfathering-children-with-student/
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joseph-e-schmitz-foreign-policypentagon-dod-germany-wrong-doing-439239
https://archive.is/qkm9c
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/01/12/conservative-gopcongressman-john-g-schmitz-70-dies/d1dc7a2d-458c-4ef4-8f0d-398dfb8d54b4/
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176662608/a-historian-details-how-a-secretiveextremist-group-radicalized-the-american-rig
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/29/republicans-orange-county-california-228110/
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20181105/281483572392685
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