"But its free speech and stop being such a snowflake. Eighteen year olds in stormed the beaches of Normandy but you cucks need safe spaces to not be triggered."

Fascism hasn't become cool, it was always attractive to the disenfranchised who needed someone to blame for their perceived lack of opportunity. Skinheads have been around for decades, all through the 70s, 80s and 90s and were really a huge problem in the former East Germany after reunification. The only thing that has changed is that cynical politicians saw a way to harness that anger and disenfranchisement during the last decade or so to ride to power. The Financial Crisis certainly helped (see the rise of Golden Dawn in Greece). Those same politicians stoked the anger for cynical gain and are now running scared as they thought they could control it, this past year with Brexit and Trump just proved that they can't