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In the 60s? He could have gotten people on board easily.
What killed his movement though was using the aesthetics and name of an organization that everyone in america hated by default. Yeah nobody had a right to hate it but by calling his movement "the American nazi party" he just made people turned off immediately. If it had different branding and the same ideals it might have been an actual contender.
There's a line you have to maintain between "optics" and "fuck it we ball" to avoid doing nothing but also to avoid people just hating you without knowing anything you do.
I'm not entirely sure about that one. People back them may have been more racist or whatever, but I think in the great bulk of those people it was really out of ignorance, not knowledge. How widespread a problem was miscegenation, faggots, and niggers, really? Rockwell railed against those sorts of things but the average person saw none of it in their daily life. The foundational mentality of everybody was a lot different too. Political polarization was virtually nonexistent compared to now, trust in the government and institutions was still at record highs, raw degeneracy was still very contained, the list goes on and on. I think that if an identical leader to GLR were to come forward today it would be *easier* for him to gain followers than it was for Rockwell because of how much further everything's fallen since then.
What killed his movement though was using the aesthetics and name of an organization that everyone in america hated by default. Yeah nobody had a right to hate it but by calling his movement "the American nazi party" he just made people turned off immediately. If it had different branding and the same ideals it might have been an actual contender.
There's a line you have to maintain between "optics" and "fuck it we ball" to avoid doing nothing but also to avoid people just hating you without knowing anything you do.
I'm not entirely sure about that one. People back them may have been more racist or whatever, but I think in the great bulk of those people it was really out of ignorance, not knowledge. How widespread a problem was miscegenation, faggots, and niggers, really? Rockwell railed against those sorts of things but the average person saw none of it in their daily life. The foundational mentality of everybody was a lot different too. Political polarization was virtually nonexistent compared to now, trust in the government and institutions was still at record highs, raw degeneracy was still very contained, the list goes on and on. I think that if an identical leader to GLR were to come forward today it would be *easier* for him to gain followers than it was for Rockwell because of how much further everything's fallen since then.