It’s funny because we have some of the cheapest gas in the world. We’d use any excuse to show our true colors.
To be fair, Germany’s terrible economy in the 1930s was a huge factor in electing the Nazi party. Hitler campaigned on “work and bread”.
that would be such a letdown if the only ground for fascism was inflation… but with the recent rise in europe, might be the case
It’s mostly fear based
People vote for wannabe strong men, law and order shit, when they are scared
And currently there are enough crises happening for people to be scared
But fascism is always politics of fear
Yeah and much easier for people to latch onto messaging of
“it’s the [immigrants|minorities|women|gays|etc] fault and I’ll take care of it, just keep us in power and it will all get better”
as opposed to
“the system is broken and it’s going to take all of us of different races, creeds, identities, etc to band together and make significant change to fix it”
And Texas separation from the union talk kicks into high gear
If you don’t like nazis then why did you vote for one?