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Don't overestimate it, either. Only about 1/3 of Germans were NAZIs even at the height of its popularity, but that didn't stop Hitler from being a dictator.
Resistance takes work, not just hope that reasonable people will somehow prevail just because they're the majority.
There is also a lot of people who are clueless or don't care about the world around them or even treat their ignorance as a sort of virtue. 1/3 of Germans being Nazis don't make the other 2/3 the resistance.