FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.
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Don Moynihan
An appropriate way to understand Project Esther, and Trump's "anti-semitism" purge, is that it is predominantly driven by right-wing Christian nationalists attacking institutions they dislike, even if it also includes attacking Jewish students and groups.
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Just makes my stomach clench at how such evil can gain a foothold
Every time I think I have gone down the last of the rabbit holes of fascist connections, I find there are more I know nothing about
This one hit near to home, having grown up in South Florida