Thesis Antithesis > Synthesis
In all manner except costume and rhetoric the EU is a functionally national-socialist government.
The Fascist Manifesto has more in common with the EU in practice than it does any pre-20th century state.
> throw away what you don't need
> keep what you do.
If you wanted to vilify nationalism and create a framework for a totalitarian autocracy at the same time how would you do it?
How would you separate wheat from chaff?
Fascism, National Socialism, National Bolshevism (Communism in one country), The Kuomintang, The Ba'ath. All nationalist parties/movements, all explicitly socialist.
Overton Window
Control the narrative.
Destroy nationalism with Communism/Liberal Democracy, refine the powder, cut the fat.
Bipolar World.
You and Him Fight
Thesis Antithesis > Synthesis.