That’s the core of it. Modern people on the right want to believe that the past is past and that it cant happen again much less here.
Now Windy knows they are evil but I dont think most of the actual real conservatives you talk to outside fourms like this do. They say it occasionally, but yet even here on FR I dont think people really grasp it and fall back to the belief that everyone has some good in them.
No. Everyone does not. Like the movie line, in Batman, some people just want to watch the world burn. In this case, some people just want to see America burn and their hated enemies, right wingers, stricken from the face of the earth. Until people remember history, they will forever repeat it.
True liberalism won in the US revolutionary war which was a great victory. It failed for a number of reasons.
But There is only one case that I am aware of the reverse and works to this day. Singapore.