The legacy of the 1918 Revolution was scarcely less ominous on the right. Extreme violence against the left had been legitimized, if not encouraged, by the moderate Social Democrats; but this in no way exempted them from being a target themselves, as the Free Corps now turned on their masters. Many of the Free Corps leaders were former army officers whose belief in the 'stab-in-the-back' myth was unshakeable. The depth of the Free Corps' hatred of the Revolution and its supporters was almost without limit. The language of their propaganda, their memoirs, their fictional representations of the military actions they took part in, breathed a rabid spirit of aggression and revenge, often bordering on the pathological. The 'reds', they believed, were an inhuman pack of rats, a poisonous flood pouring over Germany, requiring measures of extreme violence if it were to be held in check.
Their feelings were shared to a greater or lesser extent by large numbers of regular officers, and by the vast majority of right-wing politicians. Scores of young students and others who had missed the war now flocked to their banner. For these people, socialists and democrats of any hue were no better than traitors - the 'November criminals' or 'November traitors' as they were soon dubbed...
-The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard Evans
My thoughts on Biden had been that his presidency would have the appearance of halting the march toward fascism, while not addressing material conditions in any way, and acting as a sedative for half the country, leading to a runaway effect when the republicans take back the presidency. Being reminded of this, I'm now kinda worried that he (or Harris) would end up playing a more active role on the path to fascism. Does anyone with a better understanding of the history or theory have input on how applicable this might be under Biden?
He's not going to engage in active suppression of the right wing paramilitaries. At most, there will be some "both sides" laws passed that will 'strangely' only be applied to the left. Harris would be the same, although given her history her laws might be more effective (in a bad way).
Basically, what would need to happen to actually tamp down the impending civil war is a complete purge of the federal domestic law enforcement apparatus under Biden, and that's just not going to happen. Biden is a caretaker president, who just doesn't have the understanding of what the rising tide of fascism means (he spent the primaries talking about working across the aisle).
So, they'll indirectly enable the rise of fascism through fecklessness and an inability to envision actually doing what's needed.
closest I'd say is that a biden presidency would be analogous to the Hindenberg presidency, a paternal autocratic figure that's seen as a compromise between the liberals, social-fascists (socdems), and the more moderate reactionaries and conservatives of society who in turn hastened the collapse of the country into fascism by forming a popular front with the fascists themselves against the Reds.
Biden isn't really comparable to Hindenburg and the current US situation isn't comparable to 30s Weimar Germany. My point here is that this is how conservatives view "the left" - incapable of making distinctions, pathological bloodthirsty violent hatred, viewing even incredibly mild and timid reform as existenrially threatening and imperative to stop by any means.
Biden is a Pierce or Buchanan figure - conscious of the hyper-polarization of the country and completely unwilling and unable to do anything about it.