Far right on the rise in Europe

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I never credited Hitler and the Nazis with being imaginative and creative.

The Nazis just knew what the ethnic Germans (non-Jewish) wanted and needed. That populace was concerned with basic human existence. They knew about the hatred of the Jews—but saw it as merely abstract and didn’t believe they would take the concrete genocidal actions which they ultimately took.

They were blinded by their own despair.

I think you guys are writing too much and are too much worried about the far right movements.

We have to make a pure victim count based on ideology:

right victims (nazi/fascism) : how many 20-30 million people considering also civilians and war casualties.

Left (socialism/communism) : 50 + millions, political enemies, different genocides.

The thing is that nazism and fascism is banned nowaday (especially here in Italy)

Whereas communism and socialism are free to spread due to being justified by leftist: We are communist, but not like the dictator from China. I could say the opposite about fascism: i embrace fascism ideas but I do not accept what Mussolini did with that movement. (No you can't say that in Italy, you risk jail for up to two years)

So I would say there is an eternal unbalance between right and left, given to the fact that left parties won the WW2.

Want to hear yours.

I don't care about the difference between 20 million and 50 million.....both are equally genocidal. Both are equally evil. Millions of Tutsis/Hutus in Rwanda were killed in a genocide in 1994---that's equally genocidal, and equally evil.

I believe Communists should be banned if they profess a Stalinist sort of ideology. Or if they believe in some kind of totalitarian government. Not if they are Marxists without that ideology.

The Nazis, pure and simple, professed a genocidal ideology. Not all Communists profess such an ideology. I'm an anti-Communist, by the way. I would never incorporate a Marxist mode of thought into my overall worldview.

people who promiscuously bandy the term "nazi" fail to remember those nasty little hummers were a singular evil. the enormity of what they did, regardless of total body count, beggars comparison. no other large bureaucratic organization was as imaginatively, diabolically cruel and with as much casual alacrity.

I would never absolutely equate Nazism with "nationalism in general." Though Nazism was an extreme form of German nationalism, combined with an ideology of German supremacy based upon the idea that Germans were, somehow, "Aryans."

I don't believe in nationalism----but there are some nationalists who believe in a more benign sort of nationalism than that found, say, in the United States.

Basically, Trump is a "nationalist" in an isolationist sense. He is not a Nazi, though. As far as I can determine, he doesn't have genocidal feelings. The Radical Right does approve of Trump more than they approve of most people. It doesn't mean that Trump fully embraces the Radical Right. I do believe that he tolerates their existence more than most Presidents in recent history.

I believe he embraces, more, a business/Social Darwinist/dog-eat-dog sort of ideology, in addition to his American nationalism.

Trump also happens to believe in suppressing the press. And he also wants to have an undue influence in the Judiciary which I find dangerous. I don't believe he would prevail in suppressing the Legislative Branch (Congress), though. It could become like Parliament and the King in the early 17th century in England if he makes that attempt. The Legislative Branch is strong in the United States.

POlitics all over the world is like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzoicX0LCUI

Frankly now that you mention it that was quite disturbing