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No, they didn't. The Nazis were every bit as much of an incompetent mess.
Their generals largely sucked; they did as well as they did because their main opponent - France - shit the bed unbelievably hard, having made all the wrong preparations to fight basically the wrong war. Poland got pincered by two great powers at once, Czechoslovakia held out far longer than they should have given the differences in military power. The Nazis made some smart choices here and there, such as going through the Ardennes, or the decision to put radios in all their tanks, but their strategic and tactical "brilliance" was entirely invented after the fact, mostly by the generals themselves in their autobiographies where they were given free reign to blame every bad decision on Hitler.
Economically, their success was entirely down to running a plunder economy. They basically wrote a whole lot of cheques they couldn't cash, then looted Czechoslovakia and Poland's treasuries to foot the bill.
They were every bit the gaggle of squabbling incompetents that this administration is. They just had really good propaganda. This is always what fascism looks like. It's an ideology that uplifts the incompetent, by design.
They were largely incompetent but they were ideological.
None of these fascist-wannabes have a shred of conviction in them, they have no actual beliefs. When was the last time you heard any of them deliver an impassioned speech that wasn't utterly awkward and stilted and oozing with corporate callouts and pandering nonsense.
Yes, it deliver the same rotten outcomes, people still eat it up, it just feels weird losing so much social ground to a group who managed to con a third of the country's population with the same level of enthusiasm and fervor as AOL roleplay teens trying to be edgy.
This is actually it, the point I was trying to make. I couldn't really put my finger on it yesterday, but yes, this is it.
At least they start of for something. It was a fucked up thing, it was wrong, it was horrible, but at least it was something. At least they made it look impressive and great. This group of fat losers don't even have that going for them.
"Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos." - Walter, not wrong just an asshole