Reply #14: Regular people who supported fascism in the 30s and 40s. You might be interested [View All]

in Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton.

"Fascism may be defined as ... a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. (p 218)


... mobilizing passions:

-a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional -solutions;

-the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;

-dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;

For more of the list see http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/fascism-2.html