This is the kind of line Hitler actually used to cause the German people to get behind him. He told them time and again that it was the fault of the US and the depression and crash of 1929, and the reparations after the war etc etc
Hitler tapped into currents that ran far deeper.
Anger about 'betrayal' and the existence and operations of 'the enemy among us' was the main one. Hence the anti-Semitism that came so quickly to the surface.
There was nothing rational in Hitler's appeal. He appealed to paranoia and built his power on the foundation of the wound that losing a war and being plunged into poverty created. For Hitler it was a case of 'right place/right time'.
The mistake of his rational opponents and of many of those who were ultimately to be destroyed in the Holocaust was to place too much faith in rationality.
Likewise, the man mentioned by LonelyTiredAndLow would have no time at all for any appeal to a rational argument about strong women, or women choosing anything for themselves. That man has a wounded sense of masculinity and his speech is all about himself. Women are actually irrelevant in his world except as reflections of his own position among men in a world where only men count. His words are posturing for other men. He is 'masculinity signalling'.
...a Leaver I know posted several anti-abortion memes coming directly from American evangelists. He also posted something about killing any man who tries to get with his daughter (who is a baby, so I felt this crossed into hatred of paedophiles/played on that emotional pull) as well as showing a deep lack of comprehension that if he teaches his daughter to be a strong independent woman she will be able to make her own decisions and save him a prison sentence. Leavers are primed for this emotional response as we know. We need to highlight these memes where we see them and kindly put forward another perspective (e.g necessity for abortion if mother is likely to die or as above with the teaching women to be educated and independent means they don't need protectionism). I see the two as very linked and it is concerning for our freedoms as women.
His wounded sense of masculinity has found expression in his thoughts about murdering men who might harm his daughter (presumably inspired by recent cases involving paedophiles who are not white British) but in another time and place it could equally have found expression in a murderous hatred of the kind Hitler encouraged - of Jews who stabbed Germany in the back resulting in the loss of the war, Jews who brought German farmers to their knees through their occupation as livestock and grain and seed merchants, Jews who through their control of international finance pulled the strings that caused the German economy to collapse.
Or it could find expression in hatred of Europe in which Germany and France, the apparent vanquished enemy of two world wars and the hapless victim of two world wars who needed to be rescued by Britain, respectively, appeared to have gained a position in which they, through the trickery of the EEC that morphed into the EU somehow, dictated British law and trade policy, with Britain's past military heroics rendered irrelevant. (Not for nothing have recent memes shown the war cemeteries in Flanders and Normandy with "Paid In Full" emblazoned across the images. 'Paid in Full' is a fundamentalist Christian meme associated with an image of Christ on the Cross but in the context of Leave it refers also to the idea of Britain's payments to the EU, and I strongly suspect there is a subconscious association of those payments with German war reparations payments and an associated sense of great injustice to Britain).
There is also the question of Ireland, a topic only committed Unionists really know anything about but about which many people in Britain have vague feelings about. In the context of Brexit, there is anger that Ireland, which in popular belief stabbed Britain in the back in WW1 and was described by Churchill as a back stabber in WW2, and which in living memory was suspected of supporting a terrorist campaign in Britain, seems to be prospering even after the economic collapse of 2008, in total contradiction of generally held assumptions about Ireland and the Irish that were held dear by the British public for centuries (the Irish were dirty, feckless, lazy and very stupid, and inclined to mindless violence) with the sense of outrage compounded by the sight of Ireland seeming to have the ear of Germany and France and treated as an equal.
It's all too much newness for many to cope with.
UKIP's support comes from people who feel betrayed - betrayed primarily by Tories who seemed to have cozied up far too snugly with Germany/France and the EU (i.e. a party that was too quick to embrace the future - in UK politics the nod to the past and use of patriotic buzzwords has to be very clear and interwoven with all plans or aspirations for the future or a large swathe of the electorate gets angry).
See this article (I posted it upthread too) for a better articulation of how the present and the future are too much for many Britons.
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/britain-brexit.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article