Does it make you feel better to know that America has always been populated by horrible people determined to ostracize others and destroy our democratic principles? Probably not. But it's true. The ghouls we see today are repeating the things that ghouls of the past once said. Today's episode of Strange Country, cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about ghoulish Elizabeth Dilling, a self-proclaimed sahm who traveled the country preaching in the 1930s about the communists all around us and wrote crank Glenn Beck's fav book.

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Jeansonne, Glen. Women of the far right : the mothers' movement and World War II. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Accessed 6 May 2025.

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