Fascists are famously unreliable narrators. Scapegoating is core to the philosophy and fascists are typically entirely focused on winning power and asserting dominance over competing factions rather than understanding, explaining and fixing underlying societal ills.

Scapegoating isn't just spouting "redheads are horrible" it's identifying some common problem and giving that fake but easier outlet for it "the only reason you don't all have jobs is because the damn redheads came here and took them". The more apt the problem is to people the more likely they will go along with blaming a group for it.

After a good long while of deep acceptance of fascism this can start to evolve into an ever wonkier list of reasons as ever more wood is needed to stoke the fire but at the core it's usually built around a very apt summary of the biggest unsolved problems of the time.

Fair point. I don’t mean to downplay the very real pain that creates fertile soil for fascism to grow in the first place, just to point out that you can’t take the narrative about that pain at face value, since it tends to rapidly evolve into a tool for manipulation. Other tools are needed to get to the bottom of it, though the stated grievance can point you to the start of the thread.

I said “many” instead of “all” because I agree with you. But I think like your other post acknowledges is that there is real pain they experience that is driving them to fascism. What creates the pain is a lot of the things they complain about (loss of identify, worsening job outlook, worsening social standing/status, crime, not being heard by the majority).