Nazism’s survival within democracy threatens more than outside fascist tendencies.

Evidence

Another again was his discussion of the threat to democracy from fascist tendencies: in What does "Reappraisal of the Past" Mean?' he wrote, I regard the survival of Nazism within democracy as potentially more threatening than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Frankfurt School chapters on fascist personality survival in postwar Germany. — connects to: A fascist dictatorship is not imminent but the threat to democracy is growing; Fascist sympathy in democracies is a willingness to see democracy destroyed — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 125
• SEED: Essay angle: coded fascism inside democratic institutions as a greater danger than overt movements — timely given contemporary democratic backsliding.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A fascist dictatorship is not imminent but the threat to democracy is growing; Fascist sympathy in democracies is a willingness to see democracy destroyed — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 125