People gotta remember that fascism is popular, desired, and feels like freedom to its cheerleaders

@badminton we also have to deal with oligarchism, if there is such a term.

@badminton the actions of world war 2 included the actions of a communist government under Stalin that managed to be as brutal if not more so than Hitler’s regime. No totalitarian governance is acceptable regardless of political stripe.

@meJess Indeed. In the end there is no real difference between the opposing, totalitarian "isms" apart from impersonal, economic theories about how to manage a nation at ministerial level.

It all comes down to single-party governments and/or for-life Presidents in systems intended for rigid continuity. We see this now with China's present ability to work to being the World's Top Dog - unlike a full democracy she can plan years, even decades ahead..

In the 1960s-70s, the hard-Left was popular among the people who would now espouse the hard-Right. One effect of that was while Hitler was seen for what he had been, Stalin and Mao were hardly ever mentioned, except during the latter's dreadful "Cultural Revolution" purges.

The danger is that the main, more experienced, more central political parties of assorted flavours, seem unable to grasp that they must ask themselves why they lose support to the more extreme, very illiberal (in its genuine meaning) sides; Left or Right. Instead they tend to attack those parties instead of having the honesty and courage to ask "What have we done wrong?" - and strive to put it right.