To be fair liberals have muddied the waters so much that the populace has no idea what fascism is except for Hitler and maybe Mussolini.

Also even lefties can have pretty incoherent takes on it, waffling between Eco rule-setting and Stalin takes (which I'm partial to) and doing a kind of shit job at recognizing the fascism that's already present and has been for a long time, just as something that's so normative it doesn't even get categorized. Neoliberalism is basically a form of the same thing, for example, just in a more developed imperialist world.