Excellent essay. Your mentioning the difference between Nazis and street criminals, missing the point that fascism gives a sense of legitimacy to the latter. Some of the original Bavarian brown shirts were just petty criminals who liked being told that they were the master race. I suspect you have studied the criminal sin-head gangs that crowd our prisons already. Really just common thugs who find their raison d'etat in white supremacy, not to mention the mutual protection while behind bars. In a society that so marginalizes young men, we should worry about this burgeoning supply of cannon fodder for authoritarians.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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