 John T. Flynn John Thomas Flynn (October 25, 1882-1964) was a U.S. journalist. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Flynn was probably the most important single activist and publicist of the Old Right from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was born in Bladensburg Maryland in 1882. Although he graduated from Georgetown Law School, he choose a career in journalism and never looked back. The Old Right refers to separate political groups in the United Kingdom and the United States. ...
He started on the New Haven Register but eventually moved to New York where he was financial editor of the New York Globe. During the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote articles for such leading publications as The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. He became one of the best-known political commentators in the United States. The New Haven Register is a Connecticut newspaper based out of New Haven, Connecticut. ...
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Like Oswald Garrison Villard, another key figure in the Old Right, Flynn was a leftist with populist inclinations during this period. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for president and was a firm backer of the New Deal. Oswald Garrison Villard (1872 in Wiesbaden/Germany - 1949) was a U.S. journalist. ...
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The New Deal was the name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs between 1933–1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ...
But Flynn was also a consistent anti-militarist. He was a key advisor to the Nye Committee in 1934 which investigated the role of the so called “merchants of death” (munitions manufacturers and bankers) in leading to U.S. entry into World War I. The Nye Committee studied the causes of United States involvement in World War I between 1934 and 1936. ...
By 1936, he had broken with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was already comparing the statist and centralist features of the New Deal to Mussolini’s policies: “We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism possible.” FDR redirects here. ...
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Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ...
Flynn was one of the founders of the America First Committee which opposed Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Flynn became head of the New York City chapter which claimed a membership of 135,000. The Committee charged that Roosevelt was using lies and deception to ensnare the United States into the war. It mounted campaigns against Lend Lease, the Selective Service, and other initiatives by Roosevelt. The America First Committee was the foremost pressure group against American entry into the Second World War. ...
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Although Flynn scrupulously distanced the Committee from the ravings of extremist and anti-Semitic groups, such as the National Union for Social Justice, his old pro-war leftist allies cut him off and the New Republic pulled his regular column, “Other People’s Money.” Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The America First Committee disbanded in 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Flynn turned increasingly against New Deal liberalism which he regarded as a “degenerate form of socialism and debased form of capitalism.” In 1944, he wrote a classic critique of the American drift toward statism: As We Go Marching in which he warned of an unholy alliance influencing US foreign policy. Satellite image of Pearl Harbor. ...
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- "The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells."[1].
Four years later, he followed this with The Roosevelt Myth. Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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By the middle of the 1940s, he was describing himself as a liberal in the classical liberal tradition of small government and free markets. Liberalism is a political current embracing several historical and present-day ideologies that claim defense of individual liberty as the purpose of government. ...
During the Cold War period, Flynn continued his unflagging opposition to interventionist foreign policies and militarism. He was an early and prophetic critic of American involvement in the Indo-Chinese War on the side of the French. He charged that sending U.S. troops would “only be proving the case of the Communists against America that we are defending French imperialism.”
Flynn became an early and avid supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy in great part because McCarthy shared his contempt for the eastern Cold War elite. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ...
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Despite this ill-conceived association with McCarthy, Flynn remained fairly consistent in his foreign policy views. In 1955, he had a formal falling out with the new generation of Cold War conservatives when William F. Buckley Jr. rejected one of his articles for the new National Review. It had attacked militarism as a “job-making boondoggle.” Flynn retired from public life in 1960 and died in 1964. William Frank Buckley Jr. ...
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Books by John T. Flynn - Country Squire in the White House[1] (1940)
- Meet Your Congress (1944)
- As We Go Marching[2] (1944)
- The Epic of Freedom (1947)
- The Roosevelt Myth (1948/rev 1956)
- The Road Ahead; America's Creeping Revolution[3] (1949)
- Communists and the New Deal: Part II (1952)
- While You Slept: Our tragedy in Asia and who made it (1953)
- America's Unknown War: The War We Have Not Begun to Fight (1953)
- McCarthy: His War on American Reds, and the Story Of Those Who Oppose Him (1954)
- Betrayal at Yalta (1955)
- The Decline of the American Republic and How to Rebuild It[4] (1955)
- Militarism: The New Slavery for America (1955)
- Fifty Million Americans in Search of a Party (1955)
- God's Gold; the Story of Rockefeller and his Times[5] (1960)
- The Lattimore Story (1962)
- Investment Trusts Gone Wrong! (Wall Street and the Security Markets)
- Men of Wealth; the Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day[6]
- The Thought Police; an Episode in Radical Bigotry
The Road Ahead; Americas Creeping Revolution is John T. Flynns treatise on the infiltration of Socialism into the politics of the United States. ...
Reference - Ronald Radosh. Prophets on the right: Profiles of conservative critics of American globalism (1978)
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See also During his presidency from 1933 to 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt established a series of programs which he called the New Deal. ...
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