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being "one who sees and knows all," in other words, a sacred being.

Fascist Romanticism

However, fascism certainly does not consist merely of the leader and
the fascist party around him. In both Nazi Germany and Italy, there was
tremendous popular support for the regime. This was produced in a number
of ways. Fascist regimes are not simply "authoritarian," crushing their people
into silence; they are also "totalitarian."
The particular feature that attracts people to a fascist ideology in a
totalitarian system is "extreme romanticism." People who have irrational and
romantic or emotional attachments to ideals and movements in their own time
or in history are easily led and manipulated, and can even be provoked to