Andas I pointed out, it was the government-of-the-day's demonising of him that got him so much popularity. If the German government of the 20s and 30s had ignored him, and everyone just drew an amusing cartoon of him and then got on with their lives, he wouldn't have been able to adopt a position of being viewed my many as the legitimate opposition in the eyes of everyone with an anti-government bent. The BNP need to be ridiculed, not fought seriously. The problem is that there has been a lot of guff in the more liberal media about the BNP and what we should do about it. That turns them into a boogey-man, which attracts the loons.
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