Is fascism natural to Europe?

"Throughout 2018, analogies between today and the 1930s became commonplace," wrote M Burleigh. He thinks that fascism is gaining a foothold as "there certainly does seem to be a menacing odour of racism, violence, and despotic intrigue in the air". "The biggest danger that we face is not a straightforward revival of fascism, but a gradual shift in traditional conservatism toward the extreme nationalist/populist right." There has been a great metamorphosis in Central Europe as "Hungary and Poland have changed from promising models of liberal democracies into illiberal, conspiracy-minded majoritarian regimes," wrote I Krastev. Under communism these countries wanted to "imitate the West" but when they joined the EU these "post-communist countries were compelled to adopt 20,000 new laws and regulations -- none of which were really debated in their parliaments -- to meet the requirements for accession to the EU". This gave them a feeling of inferiority, which was compounded by depopulation, as young people migrated to richer countries, looking for a better life. "Between 1989 and 2017, for example, Latvia, Lithuania, and Bulgaria haemorrhaged 27%, 23%, and 21% of their populations respectively. Similarly, 3.4 million Romanians -- the vast majority of them younger than 40 -- have left their country since 2007." "We Europeans have a rich tradition of ignoring premonitions of ruin at our own peril," wrote President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. "By 2060, no single European country will have more than 1% of the world's population." With a total fertility rate of 1.6, Europe's population is ageing and will decline. Italy and Spain have a fertility rate of 1.34, well below 2.31, which is taken to be the rate at which population growth is neutral. So European nations must "continue to to pool and share their national sovereignty, with the goal of establishing a stronger common sovereignty for all. Cooperation, after all, is in our DNA." Is it? Fact is, Europeans have been fighting each other for thousands of years, still justify the barbaric practice of colonialism, and grew wealthy by looting every penny they could find, including historical artifacts. "First of all, we must guarantee the highest standards inside our Union, to keep our own societies open," said High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice President of the European Commission Frederica Mogherini. On Ukraine, "We have mobilized the biggest-ever assistance package from the EU to any country -- almost 14 billion Euros ($16 billion) since 2014." Pity, Europe's generosity did not extend to Greece, which will pay for enforced austerity for decades of come. "It is time for liberals to stop twittering away about fascism and tyranny, and start exposing the con artists and hucksters who have captured our politics,"fulminated Burleigh. Perhaps, liberals will be responsible if Europe falls apart. After all, they have been in control since World War II. And, Fascism, Nazism and Marxism, all originated in Europe.