In Nazis-Next-Door Theory, the idea is that anyone could be a Nazi, and progressives treat such unseen forces like skinwalkers, as insidious creatures blended in with normal humans. It’s not that progressives are eager to take on or understand the faceted ideology of national socialism, but instead, progressives fixate on the uniquely American and largely imagined idea of white supremacy. While Nazi Germany regarded the majority of white people, Slavs, as subhumans, and positioned Japanese people above most whites, American white supremacists and progressives have both conveniently ignored this. In America, due to the fact that so many whites come from such a blend of European cultures, the actual nazism that Hitler advocated could never form here. In America, the people who progressives call Nazis are often part of prison gangs or in very small and dwindling organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. In Nazis-Next-Door Theory, the Nazis are unseen but everywhere, every white person is secretly racist, and minority groups are held down by a society of secret white supremacists. In this article, we’ll explore Nazis-Next-Door Theory, look at Nazism and its American imitators, and look at the political incentives in pushing this theory for America’s biggest racists, known as progressives.
The progressive conception that the Nazis were far-right most likely originated in Hollywood and academia. This could be for several reasons, but mainly has to do with the biases and cultural impact of American Jewry, as well as to do with the attempts of liberals and progressives to distance themselves from the Nazis. For American Jews, who are overwhelmingly on the “left,” sharing the same ideas as Nazis was abhorrent to them. For these people, who constitute to this day a huge number of executive positions in entertainment and a huge number of professors in academia due to their high intelligence and creativity, it is much easier to paint the Nazis as what they already hated: white conservatives. The Nazis, in unionizing everyone, providing universal healthcare, banning smoking, criticizing Christianity, and advocating for organic farming and vegetarianism, were uncomfortable in any light other than as ultra-far right people for the people in charge of what was watched in theaters and what was considered credible by academic sources. National Socialism in turn began to be painted more and more as a non-socialism, a form of capitalism, a form of conservatism, and a form of white self-reflection. What Americans know of the Nazis today, in the ensuing decades, has become whatever the Jewish establishment has come to hate.
This isn’t because Jewish people all share the same goals or views, but because as people with a much higher average IQ and therefore much higher success, Jews often come to endorse cosmopolitanism and other frivolous bourgeois values that hurt mainly working-class people. As members of the wealthiest ethnic group in the world, Jews have different class interests than the rest of society, and more often than not, are opposed to both bourgeois conservatives in legacy industries and proletarian conservatives who hold different values. For this group, the ability to claim that any conservative could be a Nazi in hiding is very appealing. For the progressives that subscribe to what can only be described as Jewish propaganda about Nazism, it’s very appealing to label anyone that disagrees with them as nazis. For those on the American “left,” Nazi-Next-Door Theory is incredibly valuable to uphold, to the point that most of the hate crimes that concern graffiti’d swastikas are done by Jews and minority groups who are trying to stoke the flames of victimhood. The point to take away here is that American nazism is largely imaginary, but valuable as a facade and serves the same purpose as calling someone a witch did centuries ago. With this being said, we will look at the groups that identify themselves as white supremacist groups in the United States.
In America, the majority of people that would be described as white supremacists are in prison gangs. This is due to the fact that in jail, gangs have organized themselves around race and religion, with blacks, whites, and Christians separating from one another. For someone to not belong to any group in prison is dangerous, so in joining these groups, you gain friendships and protection in what is otherwise a very scary place. For white prison gangs, who are mainly blended Europeans, it is logical to appropriate nazi imagery for several reasons. For one, the facade that progressives pushed about nazis holding all white people above the rest of the world works great for these groups, who can benefit from maintaining such imagery in a place dominated by racist prison gangs. Secondly, most of these whites in prison are working-class conservatives, who have bought into the idea that the Nazis were far-right due to progressive propaganda. Lastly, the Nazis were known for their extreme militancy, with Nazi Germany engaging in war with almost every superpower at the time, while conducting purges of millions in their occupied territories. For these white prison gangs, who often consist of people who don’t have a great knowledge of history and learn much of what they know about the world from cinema produced by Hollywood liberals, the Nazis seem to be the perfect people to emulate. Advocating for this Amerimutt ideal of nazism gives them cohesion in prison, plays into pre-existing conservative ideals, and champions militancy in a place where force is required to survive. For these white prison gangs, it’d be almost strange if they didn’t adopt the symbols of the Nazis.
For the Ku Klux Klan, who are actual white supremacists that number in the very low thousands, National Socialism has no hold over them. The Ku Klux Klan formed from groups of southern white peasants, who sought to stop their jobs from being taken by newly liberated slaves, who were in turn funded by former confederate bourgeois that wanted to stop reconstructionist policies from being implemented in the south. The Ku Klux Klan began as a secret society, which may have influenced the Nazis-In-Hiding sentiments behind Nazi-Next-Door Theory, before developing into a paramilitary force that sought to stop blacks from voting, stop Reconstruction-era policies, sought to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods and businesses, and so on. For the Ku Klux Klan, it seemed that they wanted to promote their own in-group economic interests inside a capitalist society, while justifying it with their own theories about race. Unlike the Nazis, who had no American conception of the race known as “white people,” the Ku Klux Klan actually advocated that white people were better than other people. While what this organization did should be seen as repugnant, with many lynchings and persecutions of black people taking place, the actual death toll of the Ku Klux Klan was very small and greatly blown out of proportion. During 86 years, the Ku Klux Klan killed less black people than black people kill each other every six months. Being southern capitalists who advocate for the racial supremacy of a people that Hitler would consider mostly subhuman, the Ku Klux Klan aren’t actual nazis in the least.
What people fail to understand is that there’s no genuine fascist movements in America at this point, and we instead have two increasingly authoritarian political parties fighting over the scraps in a declining capitalist empire. The rich conservatives promote conservatism to oppose the changes that threaten to undo their legacy industries, while the poor conservatives advocate for conservatism to preserve the pathways to riches that they hope to travel along. The rich liberals are primarily in nascent and new industries, dominated by monopolistic tech companies seeking to change federal policies and funding to benefit them, while poor liberals are primarily failed heirs of the PMC class, as well as minority groups disgruntled with their lack of success in life and looking for someone to blame. While both sides of the aisles call one another fascist more and more, it’s important to know that Trump’s supporters would’ve hated mass immigration whether it came from Canada, England, China, or Mexico, while Biden’s supporters just hate white people for a trillion different – mostly made-up – reasons. Trump’s working class bases’ concerns about being undercut on wages and being replaced by untrained people who have no idea what they are doing are very valid, as we’ve seen American proletarians constantly experience this during periods of unfettered immigration. For Trump’s supporters, the policies that they’re pushing aren’t fascist and are more about retaining economic security in their own country, not letting liberal perverts around their children, and not getting discriminated against due to their race. While I can close this by saying that the Democrats are the real fascists, the truth is that capitalism has always been racist and will continue to be racist. After desegregation in 1968, we saw more and more tolerance, until by the 90’s and early 00’s racism had all but ceased to be a problem, with offensive jokes being par for the course in comedies and people living in a largely peaceful and hate-free environment. After Occupy Wall Street, things changed towards supporting hateful narratives again, in order to divide the working class, as seen below in two helpful graphs that give you an idea of the bourgeois’ incentive to push working people apart.
