Fascism is a *process*, not a fixed state. That process almost always involves an extreme minority getting a larger minority (and almost never a majority) to ACCEPT certain dehumanizing propositions as politically legitimate, even if they don't 100% agree w/ their most radical implications.

Fascism as a political practice has little to do with persuasion & is all about intimidating one's opponents into silence, ultimately via state sanctioned murder. But the murder part is the last stage of a much longer process of imposing the minoritarian will of the fascists on society more subtly.

I wrote a term paper on how the Nazis used expatriation/denaturalization as a legal means to go after Jewish Germans. And I agree, it was a deliberate process. The first list of people to be expatriated was met with a lot of (international/national) protest. Five years later, nobody cared.

IMO the biggest contribution that Martin Luther made to the future Nazi state wasn't his own antisemitism (there were plenty of other cultural influences to that point in Europe), but that he definitively broke the revolutionary spirit of the German people. A culture of acquiescence enabled Nazism.

but in another way, isn’t fascism a “fixed state” (sorry)