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** I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.
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Recently, one of my closest childhood friends dropped a bit of news: She’s moving across the pond to Ireland. I was immediately flooded with a litany of emotions. Overjoyed for her and her husband. Wistful that she would no longer be a stone’s throw away from the house I grew up in. Then a thought hit me like a freight train: Should I be thinking about moving out of the country, too?
The United States is not exactly thriving as a democracy right now. This is exactly why former Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley quit his job and moved with his family to Canada. Now, as the Bissell-Heyd chair in American studies at the University of Toronto, he says the move has made it easier to fight against fascism in the US.
“I knew that if I stayed at Yale, there would be pressure not to bring the Trump administration’s wrath onto Yale,” he says. “I knew that Yale would try to normalize the situation, escape being in the press, urge us to see the fascists as just politically different.”
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future joins host Al Letson on this week’s More To The Story.
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When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s department could be when pursuing suspected drug crimes.
But in 2018, she learned the hard way that the rumors were true when a group of sheriff’s deputies raided the home of her friend Rick Loveday and beat him relentlessly while she watched.
A few years later, Dettore-Murphy says deputies put her through another haunting incident with her friend Robert Grozier. Dettore-Murphy was just the latest in a long line of people who said they witnessed or experienced torture by a small group of deputies, some of whom called themselves the “Goon Squad.”
For nearly two decades, the deputies roamed Rankin County at night, beating, tasing, and choking suspects in drug crimes until they admitted to buying or selling illegal substances. Their reign of terror continued unabated until 2023, when the deputies were finally exposed.
“Rankin County has always been notorious,” says Garry Curro, one of the Goon Squad’s many alleged victims. “They don't follow the laws of the land. They make their own laws.”
This week on Reveal, reporters Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield with Mississippi Today and the New York Times investigate the Goon Squad, whose members have allegedly tortured at least 22 people since the early 2000s.
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