I think some apologists try to characterise the Germans as an aberation and instead express a preference for Italys regime.
But we can definitely see in the US that the corporate elite - some of whom are old enough to have fathers who were Nazi sympathizers like Charles Koch - are the ones motivating the hysteria about trans students, bathrooms, abortion, etc to organize a voting bloc that will support their chosen candidates.
Even the ethnic genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany - the extermination of the Jewish race - was deeply rooted in the ideology that Jews were a core component of Bolshevism
not so much as far as anyone can tell they hated Jews first and most of the reasons they gave for hating Jews they gave worked backwards from hating Jews to blaming them for a thing they don't like. They also baselessly and contradictorily accused the Jews of all being capitalist despite Nazi Germany also being capitalist
basically the Nazis were extremely incoherent but very clear that they hate Jews albeit for confusing and nonsensical reasons
they were also extremely anti-communist which was where their material base came from and Mussolini was more clearly anti-communist being slightly less of a rambling lunatic than Hitler
I once met a man who claimed that the Jews had kicked him off the bus simply because he was drunk, yelling about Jews, and trying to fight the driver. That man was about as precise in his reasoning for why he hated Jews as Nazi Germany
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I think some apologists try to characterise the Germans as an aberation and instead express a preference for Italys regime.
But we can definitely see in the US that the corporate elite - some of whom are old enough to have fathers who were Nazi sympathizers like Charles Koch - are the ones motivating the hysteria about trans students, bathrooms, abortion, etc to organize a voting bloc that will support their chosen candidates.
But how many fascists are aware that they associate their enemy with communism?
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I wonder how we push back against this right wing strategy. We know they’ll do it every time.
:stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
not so much as far as anyone can tell they hated Jews first and most of the reasons they gave for hating Jews they gave worked backwards from hating Jews to blaming them for a thing they don't like. They also baselessly and contradictorily accused the Jews of all being capitalist despite Nazi Germany also being capitalist
basically the Nazis were extremely incoherent but very clear that they hate Jews albeit for confusing and nonsensical reasons
they were also extremely anti-communist which was where their material base came from and Mussolini was more clearly anti-communist being slightly less of a rambling lunatic than Hitler
I once met a man who claimed that the Jews had kicked him off the bus simply because he was drunk, yelling about Jews, and trying to fight the driver. That man was about as precise in his reasoning for why he hated Jews as Nazi Germany