A truly massive HP.
The very definition of a "Liberal Fascist."
Except that a) he wasn't a fascist, b) he wasn't liberal, and c) that doesn't make sense.
HP, though.
Quite the contrary, he temporarily made the United States the first (modern) fascist state in history when he created the first propaganda department (The Committee on Public Information) in the United States was created. He also created a sedition act and sharply surpressed dissent and resistence in the american public and the press.
In the fashion of a police state, the Department of Justice arrested tens of thousands of individuals without any cause. You weren't even safe within the walls of one’s own home to criticize the Wilson administration. A letter to federal attorneys and marshals said that citizens had nothing to fear as long as they “Obey the law; keep your mouth shut.” In fact, the Justice Department created the precursor to the Gestapo called the American Protective League. Its job was to spy on fellow citizens and turn in “seditious” persons or draft dodgers. In September of 1918 in NYC, the APL rounded up about 50,000 people. This doesn’t even include the infamous Palmer Raids (named after Wilson’s attorney general) that occurred after the war.
And he did much, much more, that damn totalitarian.
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