Stigmatizing a second out-group can win a party new donors and outside constituencies.

Evidence

Although it never captured a large percentage of the popular vote until Germany’s economic collapse in 1929, the small party from Bavaria slowly gained in popularity. The Nazis also used the Communists as an additional out-group to gain at least some support from the right-leaning wealthy business owners. This allowed them to gain both notoriety in a population segment outside the Mittelstand and much-needed funds to run the party. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 951

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Glick’s later claim that out-groups are instruments of coalition building, not just targets of hatred. — connects to: Successful competing minorities, not weak out-groups, become primary scapegoats — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1585; Outbidding parties poach defectors from moderate rivals to consolidate in-group unity. — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 54; Reminding people of what they are not can drive coalition building among minority groups.

Broader Connections

• Outbidding parties poach defectors from moderate rivals to consolidate in-group unity. #expands (0.85) — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 54
• Reminding people of what they are not can drive coalition building among minority groups. #expands (0.80)
• Successful competing minorities, not weak out-groups, become primary scapegoats #complicates (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1585