I mean, Blackshirts were kind of a big deal in the UK and there was a Nazi rally held in Seattle, WA. Public opinion is swayed by what leaders and capitalists put in newspapers, so fascism wasn’t exactly unpopular. That said, control of information wasn’t so all encompassing and smoothed out in bias for liberalism as it is now, so you could have a big CPUSA branch and the German American Bund in the same town where Democrats were in the actual seats of power.
I mean, Blackshirts were kind of a big deal in the UK and there was a Nazi rally held in Seattle, WA. Public opinion is swayed by what leaders and capitalists put in newspapers, so fascism wasn’t exactly unpopular. That said, control of information wasn’t so all encompassing and smoothed out in bias for liberalism as it is now, so you could have a big CPUSA branch and the German American Bund in the same town where Democrats were in the actual seats of power.