Postwar Republicans, think the Dulleses, pursued a continuation of the goals of the Nazi Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, which evolved into the World Anti-Communist League, which flowered into numerous fascist coups around the world in the fifties, sixties and seventies (aided by the CIA). I get a lot of these names mixed up without looking them up but one fascist importation program had Ronnie Reagan as its spokesman (described in Christopher Simpson's BLOWBACK).

This "rollback" policy (rolling back Communism) was a step up from Petain's pre-WWII theory of "cordon sanitaire." Part of the strategy of collapsing Eastern European Communist nations and states within the USSR was to import "anti-communist freedom fighters," many with Nazi or fascist backgrounds, into the U.S. to become leaders within their ethnic communities here with the intention of reinsinuating them into their old homelands when the time was right. You'll recall the minor dustup in 1988 when it turned out that the Republicans' ethnic heritage group was loaded with war criminals.

[The reason why former Nazi prison guards kept being found here in the U.S. was that one branch of the government (CIA) imported them and another branch (Justice) kept finding them. These days the old Nazis are mostly dead and the Bush DOJ doesn't look.]

There have been various programs to get these fascists and their kin back into former Communist countries. The National Endowment for Democracy was one. Lazlo Pasztor, the Arrow Cross fascist who helped Hitler in WWII, helped Richard Nixon get elected (through the ethnic arm of the Republican National Committee for Richard Nixon) helped steer money from the NED to the New Democratic Forum Party in Hungary. Paul Weyrich conducted training sessions for them through the Free Congress Foundation. This scenario has been repeated throughout the ring of former satellites around and within the former Soviet Union.

Another funding source has been the "Freedom Security Act" which funneled money ("endowments") to candidates for "democracy" in newly "freed" countries. Saakashvili got an endowment through the State Department (read: CIA) during his stay here in the U.S. He was undoubtedly trained to put the shiv to Shevardnadze and to then be America's puppet there in Georgia.

But to connect it to voting rights here in the U.S.?

Let us not forget Hans von Spakovsky. His parents "fled the Nazis" and came to America in 1950. This family history has some problems, the biggest being that WWII and the Nazi regime ended five years earlier, in 1945. When the von Spakovskys fled the Nazis they fled to Huntsville, Alabama, where the biggest collection of Nazis (the rocket scientists) had resettled. It doesn't take too much speculation to put the von Spakovskys in the migration of fascists and war criminals who took the northern ratline over the Atlantic to the U.S. And it shouldn't be surprising that a generation later Hans von Spakovsky was the Bush point man, toiling in the Justice Department for newer and better ways to keep black people from voting.

In short, you can look at the Republican Party as absorbing Nazis and Nazism (or vice versa), and you see the results.