Absolute howler. He was a full-throated Nazi. He literally cheered for Kristallnacht[1].

> During his radio broadcast on November 20, 1938, while reports of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany were still on the front pages of many American newspapers, Coughlin defended the Nazi attacks as justified. Claiming to merely be a “student of history,” he traced “the causes of the effect known as Naziism” [sic] for his listeners, concluding that Nazism had “evolved to act as a defense mechanism against the incursions of Communism.”

[1] https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/pe...