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I have no idea why you're being downvoted. This is what many experts cite as the reason for why Brexit happened, why Trump happened (the first time), and why so many people are siding with right-wing populism. It's basically an established fact now, and if the left/centre cannot fix these fundamental problems, the right gets in again.
There are a lot of partisan people who tend to treat the success of their side as a total moral imperative, and that mentality has led them to support some pretty crummy politicians going on 40 years.
It's why the working class and working poor have so little power. Fascism didn't just happen overnight. The 99% that always vote Democrat or Republican no matter what the candidate has done are the ones who enabled it.
Another example would be 1930s Germany. Instead of learning from history and working to resolve issues, we instead get countless articles of "actually things are better than ever and it's your fault you don't understand how good you have it". Anything to not interrupt the transfer the wealth to the rich. That's how capitalism devolves into fascism. The wealthy industrialists were great fans of the nazis (or were simply nazis themselves).