But in their case, class hatred was transformed to race hatred. In my book, it’s all collectivist hatred, and of a piece. Franco had a better brand of fascism, because there weren’t as many diverse people to hate. Communists and homosexuals, sure. Gypsies and Basques, ok. Maybe Catalans, too. But the only Jews left in Spain were likely not even aware that they were Jewish, after 500 years of hiding it. (I am living in the basement of one such descendant of the ‘secret Jews’. He had to convert to be accepted as Jewish.) In a target poor environment like Spain, the National part of National Socialism didn’t become as toxic as it would otherwise have been, but instead tempered the Socialist part by eschewing internationalism, and thereby made it palatable. It was an ok cocktail, even though made from a bad recipe. I salute your monarchism. It’s a much preferable form of nationalism, though it hasn’t prevented the UK from destroying itself with socialism, unfortunately.
Yes, I agree.
UK is not really a monarchy; we might call it dormant monarchy at best. A possibility exists that if Britain finds itself on the brink of national collapse, the House of Windsor wakes up, dissolves the Parliament and starts ruling in the name of the British people, — the young princes look like good material, — but it is still reading tea leaves.