It's because Americans have been trained to think fascism is spectacular (a myth pushed by fascists themselves) so the mundane nature of everyday fascism doesn't really affect them.
A lot of time and energy was spent trying to paint fascism as an inherently foreign entity that comes into their midst. They will quote that whole "holding a Bible and wearing the flag" line and still imagine it as some kind of disguise it wears and not the form it takes when it sprouts from within.
It's because Americans have been trained to think fascism is spectacular (a myth pushed by fascists themselves) so the mundane nature of everyday fascism doesn't really affect them.
A lot of time and energy was spent trying to paint fascism as an inherently foreign entity that comes into their midst. They will quote that whole "holding a Bible and wearing the flag" line and still imagine it as some kind of disguise it wears and not the form it takes when it sprouts from within.