Any nation state claiming to represent the entirety of the Jewish People gets a "Free Holocaust Pass (Valid For Executing One Holocaust ONLY)".
"If God forbid" *fingers crossed* "a terrible tragedy happens" ...
Ratchet Effect baby, Ratchet Effect!
It's funny how so many of the policies of Eisenhower - a Republican - are too much to the Left for the present day Democrat Party.
I thought "tankie" was the new "commie" but maybe that's just for DNC true believers because calling people with even the slightest leftwing ideas or who are skeptical of the political propaganda from the US a "Communist", is too obvious Red Scare-style Propaganda and unlike the fans of the outright Fascist party, the fans of the Fascism-adjacent party actually care about keeping up appearances.
In before the usual suspects making posts about how everybody is a tankie for not believing America has the best system in the World...
Fascism in Portugal lasted from 1933 to 1974.
In Spain it lasted from 1936 to 1975.
Fascism did fail (specifically, in Portugal there was a Revolution and in Spain the Fascists just gave power away whilst keeping their loot) but it took about 50 years in both cases.
Had Hitler and Mussolini not gone to war with basically most of the World, I wouldn't be at all surprised if their regimes hadn't lasted until well after both died (which was what happened in both Portugal and Spain - those regimes only fell a while after after Salazar and Franco were dead).
Meanwhile just to give you an idea of how bad things can be under Fascism without people rebelling, Portugal during the Fascist days was a dirt poor country with mainly subsistence agriculture which even received Food Aid from the rest of Europe and this without even having gone through a war. Just a reminder that during the Age of the Discoveries, both Portugal and Spain were for a while (about a century) the pinnacle powers in the World to the point that they divided it in half between themselves (which is why in South America Brasil speaks Portuguese and the rest speak Spanish and why most Portuguese "colonies" were in Africa whilst Spain was mostly present in South America), so it's not as if those weren't rich countries at some point.
So, yeah, you're right that Fascism always falls (then again, so does everything else), but it can take a while to get there and entire generations can suffer horribly before things change.
I've seen and at still seeing exactly what the previous poster describe happen in my hometown, Lisbon, as the politicians for the last 2 decades invested ever harder in Tourism as the solution for the country's problems (which are mainly rooted in a management culture of profound incompetence - I lived 20 years abroad so I can see it for the shit it is by comparison - and insane levels of cronyism) rather than, you know, actually trying to solve them (the local politicians are basically the worst managers from what is maybe the worst management culture in Europe, so their "management" of the country reflects that).
Towns which mainly grew up from some little fishing village or similar through Tourism and which are mainly dedicated to it now is one thing (and there are many of those in Portugal, especially in Algarve), established cities which got taken over by Tourism is a whole different thing: it's one thing when 3 or 4 small fishing operations end up closing down because the Tourism Economy took over and a handful of people have to leave in search of jobs in their area, a whole different thing is when an entire established Economy of a city of a million people starts being undermined by Tourism and things like Tech are slowly pushed out because the city has become too expensive for the young people that normally work Tech or in fact for just about every recent University graduate (basically if you weren't earning enough to buy your house back in the time before Tourism took over, you're screwed).
Tourism will pull an Economy up from low value added activities such as Subsistence Agriculture or Fishing, but it will pull an Economy down from higher value added activities such as for example Tech - you don't need Engineers to make beds in hotels or serve drinks to tourists.
That's because that city's economy didn't start dependent on Tourism.
Tourism was just some kind of "silver bullet" that the local incompetent politicians chose because they were incapable of managing the place properly and make it better.
Further, Tourism isn't exactly an activity that can bring a place to the forefront of Economic and Technological development: almost by definition you have to be behind those who are at the forefront and have cheap enough prices to attract tourists from those other, wealthier places - Tourism it's the ultimate "second" World activity.
I'm from one such city, Lisbon, and it's become a joke of a place, sort of an open air entertainment park on top of an historic city, slowly losing character and with the locals getting priced out of buying a home there which is pushing all other Economic activity out, especially things that rely on younger people (who are the ones most hit by the housing costs) such as Tech.
The country spent tons of money in training people to be Doctors, Engineers, Architects and so on and now the Economy is ever more based on cleaning rooms, making beds and serving drinks - literally half of the students graduating from University leave the country.
Betting on Tourism is betting on Mediocrity.
There really is no better proof of the profound incompetence, mediocrity and provincialism of Portuguese politicians than their bet of almost 20% (and growing) of the country's Economy on Tourism.
That said, it's not the fault of tourists.
After the Snowden revelations and whilst I still lived in Britain (I left after the Leave Referendum), I got into the habit of being behind a VPN 24/7 (and still do, even though I don't live there anymore).
It's basic digital hygiene in this day an age of self-proclaimed "democratic" governments snooping on citizens just like the state surveillance apparatus of Authoritarian regimes (and I'm keenly aware of that shit having been born in a nation which was then still a Fascist dictatorship and having grown up hearing the stories).
It also helps with avoidance of full-bought-and-paid-for-legislation like Copyright legislation (i.e. it helps with Piracy).
In Britain, which has the craziest civil society levels of surveillance in Europe by far, people should have been doing this for ages but I guess the suppression of talk about civil society surveillance in reaction to the Snowden Revelations has worked perfectly at keeping people unaware of just how dictatorship-like the UK is in that regard.
That said, it's hilarious that the current bunch of Fascist-adjacent politicians are de facto training people to frequent pirate sites and avoid government sanctioned tracking, thus becoming harder targets for the automated surveillance of the GCHQ.
From the point of view of the political simpletons in the US (who obviously are not all the Americans, but certainly are all the ones parroting talking points from the Democrat Establishment or from the Republicans), having any political beliefs to left of theirs (and, as Neoliberals, they're so far to the Right that everything else but outright Fascism is to the left of them) is a Tankie.
It's both an example of the Dunning-Krugger Effect in the domain of Politics (everything else but the mainstream politics in their pseudo-Democracy is perceived as one big blob called "Communism" because they're extremely ignorant of the broader discipline of Politics), and a rehashing of the good old MacCartist propaganda, with the difference that the neoliberals care about appearences so instead of calling all lefties "Commies" or "Reds" (which nowadays marks one as a derranged MacCarthist), they call all leftwingers "Tankies".
It's actually interesting that the reaction of the Democratic Party Establishment to the rise of Leftwing ideas amongst the population there and even Leftwing personalities in their own party, is to reboot MacCarthist-style Propaganda but with slightly different keywords to avoid negative associations in people's mind's with MacCarthism - in the last couple of months, here in Lemmy the usual US Democrat Party Tribalist Muppets (you know the kind: the people that will say that leftwingers who didn't vote for the Democrat presidential candidate are to blame for the Gaza Genocide because "not voting Harris is the same as voting Trump" and Trump supports that Genocide) have almost as a choir started pushing the messaging that people with ideas to the left of the mainstream US Democrat Party Politicians are Tankies.
A subset of this new Propaganda attack has been accusing anybody who doesn't without question believe what the Press in the US aligned with the Democrat Party and the politicians says about China are in fact China supporters (a variant of the good old "If you're not with us you must be with them" technique so beloved by Far-Right parties).