The Power of Terror

Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf about two kinds of terror, which a successful mass movement should know how to deploy. Spiritual terror is designed to silence the voices of others with vicious personal attacks; physical terror has its own psychological advantages. The power of a Hitler figure grows proportionally to how much physical terror he can get away with. Someone who actually or apparently supports liberalism can't condone tactics that go outside of liberal norms but an enemy of liberal democracy like Hitler can.