After WWI and throughout most of the post-war years, emerging Far-Right parties and yet-to-be-defined Third Positionist groups and movements used a number of different tactics and fallacies to draw civilians towards their side of the political spectrum. Most of these forces used things like the fear of communist, anti-authoritarian, or pro-democratic uprisings, anti-Semitism, social Darwinism, eugenics, and other fears held by the more ideologically-inept, and civilians positioned closer to the goals of such forces, to lure them in as supporters.
Factions of the Third Position at the time like the National Socialists, Strasserists, Fascists, National Syndicalists, Falangists, and Futurists (among others) displayed their small size when they began in politics, street warfare, and activism. They cited those fears as reasons for why they should have more prominence and strength, and why the broader population needed them to ensure the safety, protection, and preservation of society, nations, traditions, and races from those fears. More prominence and strength, more numbers, a bigger size…