How Fascism Works

Fascism works because fascist leaders promise to make life of citizens dominant ethnicity of a given country much better by taking land from their neighbors. Land is valuable thing, so some people are inclined to support it in hope of getting more land for themselves or their children.

To top this up there is an emotional appeal towards perceived national greatness. We will be better, grander and stronger and foreigners will both fear and respect us instead of despising and taking advantage of us as their currently do.

Finally, there is revanchism for our lands currently controlled by former occupiers. You can nearly always find or made up some documents that certain parts of neighboring countries were originally ours but was unfairly taken away from us by foreign invaders. Now its only fair to take these lands back.

All that make fascism work.

What does not work is the fact that to achieve any of that you almost always need to start wars. People do not like wars. Foreign countries are particularly alarmed as they see war in the air and unlike the invader, they have nothing to gain, only to lose so they band against the fascism to take it down together.