alt Hacker News“Average”, son. Was the average American a fascist in the early 1900s?
The fascist party in the early 1900s was a fringe party. It existed and was considered a legitimate opinion, fine, but don’t act like the average American was anywhere near fascist.
What in gods name would blood and soil even mean when you’ve got Italians living next to Irish living next to Poles living next to English? You haven’t got any blood to fascism about!
> You haven’t got any blood to fascism about!
Like that stops people. Hitler hardly matched his own Aryan ideal.
> Was the average American a fascist in the early 1900s? … The fascist party in the early 1900s was a fringe party.
That’s equally true about Germany. As the sibling comment notes, it’s the era of Jim Crow and the female half of the country can’t even vote.