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...because modern American conservatives and repugs are completely different animals ideologically from Nazis. Then again, the current Neo-Nazis are dramatically different from the Nazis of long ago. Modern Neo-Nazis are extreme right-wing nutjobs, even further to the right than the Freepers.
In fact, the Nazis of old probably would have gladly executed the Freepers, they'd have been considered a political threat.
Past Nazis were rather close to the center, but their extremism was in their authoritarianism (not their conservatism), their desire to control everything, with patriotism used as the justification for the ends and means. Communists probably have the most in common with the Nazis, except that Communism tends to be an extreme left-wing ideology. They share similar economic policies and both have a long history of abusive authoritarianism and lack of regard for basic human rights.
Nazism and Communism are both failed ideologies, which is why both political systems have long since faded into the limelight.
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