No, that is not what myself or most would read Fascism has come to America to mean. A small handful of inbred idiots sitting in their Mom’s attic is not Fascism coming to America. And those guys arent really fascists anyway, they just mouth the words. By that then Anarchism has come to America, Communism has come to America, Monarchism has come to America, etc etc. There are always a few nuts. Now sure, the white supremacists have gotten some voice with the current Idiot-in-Chief but even tho all Nazis are White Supremacists, all White Supremacists arent Nazis.
If Fascism has really come to America, they’d be running viable nazi party candidates.
No, Fascism can never happen here, in fact, I will say it will never happen again. It’s dead. Just like Communism.
That doesnt mean Authoritarianism is dead, no- in fact it is very much alive and well. But the particular flavor of Authoritarianism called Fascism is dead.
You quoted wiki "Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy …" and yes, Far right authoritarianism isnt dead. But note those words "is a form of". Far right authoritarianism will never take the FORM of Fascism again. And trump isnt a fascist- he is a Populist=
An ideology like fascism involves a holistic view of how politics, the economy, and society as a whole should be ordered. Populism doesn’t; it calls for kicking out the political establishment, but it doesn’t specify what should replace it. So it’s usually paired with “thicker” left- or right-wing ideologies like socialism or nationalism.Populists are dividers, not uniters, Mudde told me. They split society into “two homogenous and antagonistic groups: the pure people on the one end and the corrupt elite on the other,” and say they’re guided by the “will of the people.” The United States is what political scientists call a “liberal democracy,” a system “based on pluralism—on the idea that you have different groups with different interests and values, which are all legitimate,” Mudde explained. Populists, in contrast, are not pluralist. They consider just one group—whatever they mean by “the people”—legitimate… By Inauguration Day, the transformation was complete: Trump’s rhetoric was thoroughly populist. “January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again,” he proclaimed…The moral dimension of populism “explains why someone like Donald Trump, who clearly is not a commoner, can nevertheless pretend to be the voice of the people,” Mudde told me. “He doesn’t argue, ‘I am as rich as you.’ What he argues is, ‘I have the same values as you. I’m also part of the pure people.’”
And here’s where the ideological explanation for Trump’s seeming vanity comes in. If Trump is the only authentic emissary of the people, then how does he reconcile that role with unspectacular crowd sizes, weak poll numbers, the loss of the popular vote, mass protests by people claiming he doesn’t represent them, and critical media coverage of the policies the people allegedly want?..While Trump has been inconsistently populist, Mudde noted, he has consistently opposed elites, demonstrated a nativist attitude toward immigrants, and exhibited “authoritarian streaks.” These could be described as his thicker ideologies.
According to Norris, who labels Trump a “populist-authoritarian,” nativist nationalism dwells on threats posed by outsiders, and revolves around “the idea that the country should come first, and that there are certain groups that are part of the people and they’re the ones who should get the benefits and rewards of that society.”