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- Oct 2, 2021
Their Wikipedia article makes for an entertaining read. Count how many NSM members who also happened to be nonces.Not to get too off-topic, but I think this ties into a problem that really any fascist/nazi movement is going to struggle with. Fascism isn't progressive anymore.
When fascism was introduced, it was new, revolutionary, and it responded to the issues of the day with a determined vigor and program that looked ahead. Of course, some aspects of fascism were rooted in the nation and history, and they weren't ever afraid of drawing allusions and parallels to it. However, it was in service of a future ideal of the nation, not a RETVRN type dream of the past. Nazi Germany saw itself as completing the centuries long program of Ostsiedlung, and the development of the German/Germanic/Aryan people as a whole. Italy under Mussolini weren't just LARPing a new Rome, they dreamed of a new distinctively Italian Empire that drew upon more than just an appeal to Rome.
Today, however, Fascism and Nazism are a century old. In some ways, adherents to these ideologies (when they're genuine and not just LARPers or actually insane like the AWD) are out of touch with the developments of the modern day. The world in which these ideologies were built to live in does not exist anymore. And, much like the Marxists who failed before them, the modern Fascist and the modern Nazi too often leans into trying to force the world to match their ideology, rather than adapt their ideology to match the world.
Tl;DR: Modern day Nazis need to stop trying to copy-and-paste Hitler, and instead imitate what Hitler did in creating National Socialism instead.

Also daily reminder that Burt is fat.