Don’t Underestimate Fascists.
A Historic Perspective on the 2020 U.S. Election
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied Powers. Millions of people from nations all over the world celebrated in the streets.
Flash-forward decades later, after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville — the largest openly white nationalist march in the United States in decades — that left a woman dead, the Washington Post and ABC News conducted a random sample poll by telephone of 1,014 adults. The poll’s margin of error was 3.5 percentage points. In that poll, the question “Do you yourself think it’s acceptable or unacceptable to hold neo-Nazi or white supremacist views?” was asked.
9% of respondents answered this was “strongly” or “somewhat” acceptable. Not a large percentage, right?
But being that polls are intended to represent nationwide opinions via random sampling, if that 9% figure were extrapolated to the national adult population of 251,564,106 people over the age of 18 in 2017, that essentially means almost 22.8 million American adults were either Nazis or sympathetic to Nazis. Frankly, Nazis and Nazi sympathizers are both the same thing, as far as I’m concerned. Almost 23 million. In 2017. That’s more people than each population of every single American state…
