American fascism has actually had some new twists on the narratives because it’s a settler-colonist “nation of immigrants” and so doesn’t have an ancient history to romanticize. They’ve tried the whole “European supremacy” thing, but it’s not quite plug-and-play. Makes it harder to get the esoteric sects up and running. So the fact that QAnon has such a big evangelical base and is looking more and more like a young religion each day is that much more concerning.

Another proposal has been to romanticize a future. Like, uphold the American dream as the future we’ve been sold and insist that the mightiest of us will prevail and achieve a shiny tech utopia run by all the smartest entrepreneurs. Tech utopian Musk fanboys are also concerning for this reason. These are people who will absolutely go fash if it means they get to have robot arms (metaphorically or literally). It’s more of a Randian vision.

I think the point here is that American fascism will look like Bioshock run by the Christian Taliban