askchapo

I have never seen a lib irl say hitler has good points

Consider yourself fortunate, then. I have, more than once.

I think the scratched liberal goes fascist without even knowing it. They're not going to just suddenly get on board the "hitler good" train,

I agree. There's a reason we call it a pipeline.

if not important, worthwhile to note that they are a different creature being used by the fascist, less so than a fascist outright.

It's absolutely worthwhile (and important) to differentiate between out-and-out fascist and ignorant liberal. I just think for a lot of them, certainly the ones we'd call scratched libs, it's more a matter of degree than of kind. It's a spectrum, and unfortunately they usually end up sliding in one direction along that spectrum.

I do think you're right that it's far more often that a lib will deal with their cognitive dissonance by going the "that's not Nazi" route as opposed to the "Nazis aren't all bad" route, but I still contend that the latter does happen, and I have actually seen it happen.