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Image of an American fascist screaming while holding a Tiki Torch, from the Unite the Right rally at the Confederate Statue in Charlottesville. Text: "Nazism was a movement built on its ability to bring together the forces of the right. The party had achieved this remarkable balancing act by appealing to as many prejudices and obsessions as possible; they embrace antisemitism, anti-Marxism, Volkisch Romanticism, Nordic mysticism, atheism, anti-capitalism, eugenics, and colonial imperialism. The result was a wild and at times unstable mix of traditionalism, conservatism, and radicalism. Colonial imperialism was one of the more important of these political strands, and while campaigning at the ballot box, the Nazis skillfully explpited the nostalgic longing for the lost colonies to great effect. Even after coming to power in 1933 and dismantling the democratic apparatus of the Weimar state, it is remarkable how acutely sensitive to public opinion the party remained. Despite the totalitarian nature of Nazi rule, the party machine, oiled from a decade of electioneering, was primed to keep its disparate support blocks moving in the same direction, constantly assuring each of them that their particular concerns and preoccupations were at the core of the party's programme and in the forefront of the Fuhrer's mind." The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide & the Colonial Roots of Nazism by David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen.