In hindsight, "Stand Back and Stand By" does not sound quite the same as the first time...

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29. :) Well, perhaps that's not a dot so much as some of the glitter thrown up

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by far-right white supremacists to keep MAGAs dazzled and distracted. Definitely fascist or just some more run-of-the-mill far-right racism manipulator?

As you obviously know, Hitler did heavily employ conspiracism, German mythology, and occultism, along with of course giant, massive lies, to draw vulnerable sorts to his new ideology, but are those elements unique to fascism?

We do know that mythology, occultism, and conspiracism have all been and are used by leaders of other ideologies, including socialist and theocratic, on both left and right. Especially "charismatic" leaders who draw people less concerned with provable truth and science-based answers than the thrill of finding great truths unknown to most in a "great" leader and "great" cause. Some tRumpists, of course, 8 feet deep in it, but some on the left admired both Bernie Sanders and Marianne Williamson and some eventually migrated to the right as anti-vaxxers etcetera and likely more than a few eventually as Q-nuts running the spectrum.

(Liberal democratic leaders find them least useful in drawing and manipulating support and most likely to repel their larger proportion of more sober, self-honest, reality-grounded voters. Moderate conservative leaders used to have much the same problem, but not with what they'd have to work with these days if they ran.)