@NorthernInvader I figure the trick is for competent people who oppose them to further perfect the the same tactics, and get better at using them than the far-right wingnuts, while (and this is the differentiator) fully intending to actually solve the aforementioned problems and having detailed, viable plans to do so.
Which is precisely what I - a pragmatic, populist, economically left-wing civic nationalist with moderate social views - aim to achieve: beat them at their own game.
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Fascism is always more successful with the public when it can cloak its hatred and malice in some actual truths. Smart fascists always knew that. Notice how they never fix the price gouging or the landlords whenever they get power, though, because they gotta keep the people desperate for them.
If "moderates" were smart, they'd fix those things before the fascist could glom onto them. But those big donors...