re: #132 HappyWarrior

I think sadly part of it is the actual memory of the Nazis becoming more distant. When I was a kid, our grandfathers or great uncles had all been WWII vets. Some were liberal, some conservative but all proud of their role in the Axis defeat.

I’d buy that if it was just the label or trying to ‘reclaim’ the Swastika or something. Misguided as all hell maybe, but sure. But this is the entire ideology coming to bear and becoming accepted again. This isn’t looking at a figure like Rommel and admiring his career while still decrying his part in the Nazi regime, this is mainstreaming the whole nostalgia for everything from hating Jews, to admiring the ‘Final Solution’ to demands of racial purity and bullshit, without even coding or dog whistling anymore. It’s open nostalgia for Nazism in all aspects, from aesthetics to ideology.