History professor to my partner: many conservatives are not fascists, but partner with fascists because it serves their goals, and so joined for example the Nazi Party for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. My partner: if you are in the Nazi Party, aren't you a fascist?
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Exactly. That’s why I’m not particularly interested in individual motivations. Hitler didn’t *really* need his small cadre of brilliant true believers to take over Germany. He just needed every German citizen to shrug and say, “Well, they throw nice mixers. Sure, I’ll join.”
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Yeah, as Ian Kershaw said "the road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference".
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Yeah I agree w/ you, especially during fascists' upward trajectory. I assumed from the anecdote's context that the historian was talking about during the regime years; that's when the question of careerist bandwagoning gets far more complex than membership=belief (like Iraq 2003)
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