I'm thinking the raise of extreme nationalism and populism (i.e., nazis) seems to caused more by pace of changes (rate of it) in the society and economy than by economical problems or even immigration.
It seems like that Nazis are more a reaction on the pace of the changes. For example, science was rapidly changing (weird quantum mechanic and even weirder general relativity are both from Germany), society was becoming very liberal (religious tolerance, etc.), economy (fiat currencies, etc.) and so on.
Nazism and similar ideologies are clearly attractive. They hook into some fundamental part of the human psyche. They are also repellant. Their success depends on which of these factors is stronger.
A big part of what makes them repellant is seeing what the real world consequences are. It’s hard to find Nazism attractive when you’ve seen it produce genocide and the near total destruction of its country in war.
But that was a long time ago. There aren’t many people left alive who remember that time. The horrors are going from concrete to abstract. I hope it’s not true, but maybe we can’t shift away from it until we have another example of how bad it is.
I'm thinking the raise of extreme nationalism and populism (i.e., nazis) seems to caused more by pace of changes (rate of it) in the society and economy than by economical problems or even immigration.
It seems like that Nazis are more a reaction on the pace of the changes. For example, science was rapidly changing (weird quantum mechanic and even weirder general relativity are both from Germany), society was becoming very liberal (religious tolerance, etc.), economy (fiat currencies, etc.) and so on.
In short, "change" anxiety causes this.