While previous authoritarian regimes had been content to insist on mere obedience, the totalitarians sought to erase even the cognitive capacity of individuals to believe anything other than the party’s mutilated vision of the world. In the case of right-wing totalitarianism, this necessitated the use of terror to both suppress deviance and to constantly generate an atmosphere of fear towards undesirable groups.Matthew McManus
https://merionwest.com/2019/10/08/sl...nding-fascism/