... fascism must have seemed apocalytpic and world-conquering, inevitable, opposition doomed. But in hindsight it's clear that was far from the case, its defeat was inevitable from the start, it did not shift the tide of change in its favoured direction, quite the opposite

Losing my mind over this, I guess everyone's critical faculties have been burned to shit in the past few years

Shame on Australia? Absolutely, add it to the pile. They still have the union jack on their flag for goodness sake, shame is an old friend for them