Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.
People always say this, but I think it’s a rather facile analysis.
Fascism when fully instituted basically doesn’t work as a governing ideology. Many countries have tried it and many countries have found that out.
Sure, there’s sometimes encampments; there’s sometimes secret police; there’s sometimes using the military on your own countrymen; there’s sometimes genocides; there’s sometimes surveillance; there’s sometimes lots of things…but you know what it always breeds? A government full of distrusting, incompetent, loyalist boobs that are slaves to one man’s dumb ass ideas.
There is no competent version of fascism because one man alone cannot “fix it”. Even a singular genius cannot rule a modern country based upon just his own ideas, he has to have a group of competent people surrounding him, triaging issues, and analyzing different things…those type of people don’t tend to want to work for the type of backbiting, dark triad narcissists that nearly always sit at the center of fascist government.
Fascism leads to dark, terrible things, but it’s basically always, at its heart, a kakistocracy.