Could Nazism rise again as Hitler predicted?
Fascism could rise again. Not ‘Nazism’ specifically, but then it could be very close to Nazism, it just wouldn’t be called that. If you wanted to bring back Nazi-style fascism, you wouldn’t march around with swastikas and do Nazi salutes and stuff like that, because that turns people off. Neo-Nazis today are really more interested in getting people angry at them, being outrageous, getting attention. If you -really- wanted to bring back Nazism you’d put it in different words. You’d sell it as capitalism, nationalism, protecting the country from some threat posed by minorities, etc. And we already have politicians who do that. ‘White nationalism’ or ‘white power’ are going to be very hard to sell because we are so aware of racism these days. But often it is disguised as anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-welfare, or anti-drugs, etc. For years, conservatives in the US have used many many issues as proxies to talk about racism without really seeming to be talking about racism–crime, drugs,
