Why did half the Strausserites kill the other half during the Night Of Long Knives? How could the CIA go after its close ideological allies in the Nixon Administration during Watergate? What precipitated capitalists like Perot to turn on fellow oil tycoon Bush Sr in the '92 election? Why do Libertarians even exist in a country with a party as far-right as the GOP?
Gotta consolidate power in order secure it indefinitely. You can't have the next President sending the FBI in to raid the last one after every election cycle. So the current President will use existing powers to eliminate the competition and maintain office without challenge.
And you need a rump "loser" party to stash all your dissidents, in order to scapegoat them every time something goes wrong. The Democrats make for a great punching bag when they're out of power and a great Boogeyman when they're in power. Similarly, Democrats need a Strong Republican Party to wrestle with in order to keep the :maybe-later-kiddo: wing of the party loyal. Fascists fight other fascists at the bottom to keep control at the top. Otherwise, you end up with power-hungry lieutenants doing Operation Valkyrie shit on your charismatic leaders and dissident secret service putting bullets into the heads of your puppet presidents.
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Come now. They'll give an endless number of passionate speeches.
I doubt they'll be all that passionate. My guess is the tone will be something more along the lines of "regrettable"
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Why would the fascists fight the other fascists?
Why did half the Strausserites kill the other half during the Night Of Long Knives? How could the CIA go after its close ideological allies in the Nixon Administration during Watergate? What precipitated capitalists like Perot to turn on fellow oil tycoon Bush Sr in the '92 election? Why do Libertarians even exist in a country with a party as far-right as the GOP?
Gotta consolidate power in order secure it indefinitely. You can't have the next President sending the FBI in to raid the last one after every election cycle. So the current President will use existing powers to eliminate the competition and maintain office without challenge.
And you need a rump "loser" party to stash all your dissidents, in order to scapegoat them every time something goes wrong. The Democrats make for a great punching bag when they're out of power and a great Boogeyman when they're in power. Similarly, Democrats need a Strong Republican Party to wrestle with in order to keep the :maybe-later-kiddo: wing of the party loyal. Fascists fight other fascists at the bottom to keep control at the top. Otherwise, you end up with power-hungry lieutenants doing Operation Valkyrie shit on your charismatic leaders and dissident secret service putting bullets into the heads of your puppet presidents.