"8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
### Commentary
America is the land of "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" and the poor seeing themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires 
." Humiliation is a big motivation, but social/cultural is the source. It's common to see rage at "coastal elites" because "they're laughing at us." (When the actuality is worse: they're not thinking about you at all. "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about .")
As for characterizing the enemy as "simultaneously strong and weak," it's everywhere. Government bureaucrats simultaneously couldn't get a "real job" and are savvy and powerful enough to be a "fourth branch of government." College students are simultaneously "soy boys" and thugs that drive free-thinkers off campus. Professors are patently ridiculous postmodernist poseurs – anyone with common sense can see that! – but nevertheless effortlessly beguile their students to support their goal: nothing less than destroying American society. Financiers run the economy to hurt the common man, but farmers could easily starve out the big city boys, who would be unable to retaliate. And on and on.
See also The Outlaw.