TSBU takes on the Regnery family tree, the branches of which take us to the America First Committee, the US Conservative Revolution, and the absurd but influential Alt-Right. The Regneries rubbed shoulders with the Who's Who of the 20th century's most important fascists, reactionaries, Yale spies, and NAM big shots since breaking rich in Kansas City, and didn't stop when they made it to DC.

Wilhelm and the kids. Billy Hank is top right.

Reading:
Bjerre-Poulsen, Niels. Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945-65. Museum Tusculanum Press. Copenhagen, 2002.
Cole, Wayne S.. America First: The Battle Against Interventionism, 1940-1941. University of Wisconsin, 1953.
Tanenhaus, Sam. Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America. Random House, 2025.
Walsh, David Austin. Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. Yale, 2024.

Intro Music: Spike Jones, "Der Fuerher's Face". 1943.
Outro Music: Ramona, "Cello and Voice".
Other music from pixabay.org, chosic.com, fesliyanstudios.com, archive.org, and Ramona.

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