Radio War Nerd EP169—Reagan Zombies: Elliott Abrams & the Lyndon LaRouche Cult

Recorded February 18, 2019 One Reagan Era zombie returns to power, another returns to the grave. The War Nerd and Ames first look at Elliott Abrams, Trump's recently-appointed Venezuela regime-change viceroy, and the El Mozote massacre that Abrams ran cover for nearly 4 decades ago . . . At 1:22:00 - Ames & the War Nerd discuss the strange & loathsome life of neofascist cult leader Lyndon LaRouche, who just died at age 96. We talk about LaRouche's early Quaker life, his years as a thwarted Trotskyite revolutionary, and how he transformed of his gaggle of middle-class Trotskyite grad students into a weird & violent neofascist cult . . .