Because if the ruling class doesn’t want it, fascism isn’t happening. Only if they become scared enough of a left working-class movement that threatens their control of society will the capitalists turn to the fascists. Until then, “fascism” exists as a frightful lure to get the liberals and the self-mutilated left to go along with various forms of repression that will mostly be used against them. This is the state of preemptive counter-revolution—the state in which the left eats itself in advance, ‘Cause Fascism!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/29/the-american-farce-unravels-shreds-of-january-6th/

“When I left, they were into golf clubs and fishing poles,” she said. “When I got back, it was automatic weapons.”

https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/the-radicalization-of-a-dead-capitol-hill-rioter/

"Whatever supposed fascist traits one finds in Putin or Trump—or in “snowflake” campus agitators and “nanny state” progressives—one does not find such barbarity. Avoiding careless use of the F-word does not normalize the far-right; what it resists is the normalization of thoughtless and demonizing political discourse.

"Today is not the 1930s. We do not face a crisis on the scale of the Great Depression or a legacy of aroused passions, thwarted hopes, and unprecedented violence to rival the aftermath of the Great War [Or, I would add, the trauma of WW I itself.] And while liberal democracy is an anomaly in human history and should not be taken for granted, liberal-democratic norms still enjoy wider legitimacy than they did a century ago.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/02/donald-trump-fascist-nazi-right-wing/