American bourgeois democracy definitely looks and operates differently from Italian and German Fascism, but also distinctly from, AFAIK, every other bourgeois democracy. The various factions of the bourgeoisie do battle over their competing interests in Congress, but the degree to which covert and overt committees of intelligence and business people decide the actual critical components of domestic and foreign policy can't be overstated and, in my opinion, puts it at least adjacent to the dictatorship of Fascism (though much more effective due to the ability to maintain the facade of liberal democracy).