political strategy
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To nationalize factories, demolish churches, and issue revolutionary manifestoes would not have made the armies more efficient. The Fascists won because they were the stronger; they had modern arms and the others hadn't. No political strategy could offset that.
The political strategy of divide, demonize and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States - since the days of slavery - to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another rather than uniting to challenge unjust political and economic systems.