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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (10826)	10/22/1998 10:32:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

Chaz, on the neo-nazis, klansmen, Aryan nations, etc., in the U.S., I personally have no idea of their total numbers. But sociologists generally estimate that "fringe groups" plus sympathizers even in normal times account for roughly 10% of the population in any modern Western country. I am not surprised that they are here. I would be very surprised if their influence grew much further. Hitler and the Nazis may have started small, but their movement grew on very fertile soil. The Germans had just lost World War I, and had been forced to accept a humiliating peace. Then there was the "stab in the back theory" -- the government betrayed us, Revenge! Revenge! All those Freikorps wandering around. Hyperinflation. And so forth and so on. But there seem to be no objective grounds for the growth of a strong illiberal right wing movement here. Of course, I could be wrong. But I hope not. jbe