Important to remember that Quisling's pre-war following in Norway was tiny, verging on nonexistent. He misled the Nazis into believing his native fascist party was a mass movement, when in fact it had barely any public support.
https://twitter.com/FXMC1957/status/1436235900594364416
Fascist parties becoming big enough to seize power semi-legitimately, as in Germany, is the exception rather than the rule. More often, fascist regimes are installed as clients by foreign conquerors or established by a violent coup.
Even Mussolini wasn't swept to power on a tide of public fervour. The "March on Rome" was largely a PR exercise, it involved a relatively small number of men but was nonetheless enough to intimidate the king into making him PM.
Franco had to seek massive foreign aid to make his insurgency a success, and even then it was a close-run thing. What I'm getting at is, parties that claim to represent the "will of the people" very seldom do.
Am I right in thinking that no country has ever chosen totalitarianism in a free election? Though I suppose the combined Nazi and KPD vote in Germany did top 50% in July 1932.
https://twitter.com/JB59795482/status/1436240023330992136
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