It's very strange that so many people do not understand what the "National Socialists" of Nazi Germany actually represented. It is complicated, but not infinitely complicated.
For example, many people confuse the Nazis as being "fascists". Except the Nazis themselves thought very carefully about it and decided that, no, they were not fascists.
The easiest first step in understanding what the Nazis really believed in terms of something like political theory is to observe something they often repeated in arguing their case to the world: They said that both communism and democracy as represented in the United States were Jewish conspiracies to submit the natural superiority of "Nordic peoples" to slavery, perversion and polluted blood lines.
They were rabidly anti-communist and anti-democratic. Economically, they were not true socialists, but used the term socialist in order to attract Germans who were unemployed and hungry and looked favorably on socialism of some other kind from communism, which loomed very dangerously in the twenties and thirties in Germany.
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The United States of America is for citizens only! Everyone else OUT.
Criminalize asking party affilation for voter registration! End the "two party system"!
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