[lucian1900]

There is a kind of pendulum, the predictable and periodic failure of capitalism. Whenever a crisis happens, it's hard to sustain the fiction that capitalism is good for most of us. Some shift left, realising that billionaires are in control and can be defeated. Others shift right, mistakenly blaming those already oppressed (poor, immigrants, LGBT).

Sunshine is clearly not the best disinfectant, since we see fascist rhetoric and violence spreading. Repeating a lie enough can work, especially when people are already angry and desperate. And especially when it's merely an intensification of the same rhetoric that capitalism spreads anyway.

Put differently, after capitalism has shifted the Overton window to the right by enough, fascism becomes more generally acceptable.