Fascism's success almost always depends on the cooperation of the "losers" during a time of economic and technological change. The lower-middle classes-the people who have just enough to fear losing it-are the electoral shock troops of fascism {Richard Hofstadter identified this "status anxiety" as the source of Progressivism's quasi-fascist nature}. Populist appeals to resentment against "fat cats," "international bankers," "economic royalists," and so on are the stock-in-trade of fascist demagogues.
( Jonah Goldberg )
[ Liberal Fascism: The Secret ]
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