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You don't think that fascism is just the American norm? I feel like fascism has been present long before our current post ww2 decline. I feel like the boomer brain that is so ubiquitous was a reaction to not just the late 70's depression l, but was a reaction to minorities finally coming to the table and demanding agency and a piece of the social safety net. Corporations convinced the white majority to rip down the safety net rather than share it with the unworthy.
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idk, there are some places where citizen border patrols (death squads) are a thing, and informal sundown towns and such, but in general I think it's really difficult to call Americans fascist rather than just immensely sympathetic to fascism in virtually every respect. Fascism is very active and Americans tend to be passive.
You can't call all Americans fascist but I think the system is fascistic. It's a government for corporations controlled by corporations. With a group that is held above others. While the othered group is persecuted. And a strong vein of patriotism and a huge military.
I don't think that that's giving an adequate account of the more peculiar elements of fascism, since all of what you said applies pretty well to Britain in 1600 (and at many other points, but you get my meaning). In fact, the explicit and codified white supremacist ideology of Britain at the time would make it fit those parameters much more snugly than contemporary America.
One of my personal points of emphasis, as you can see by implication in my comment, is that America has a very low paramilitary presence outside of specific places, and paramilitarism, especially in the form of "right wing death squads" has historically been a fascist hallmark. The vast majority of America does not have civilians with weapons banding together to violently purge "undesirables" (not necessarily racial minorities, see early fascist Italy), that duty has been handled by police since the days they were mainly slave catchers. The closest analogue within the police are the Sheriff's Deputy gangs in places like LA, along with border patrol collaborating with enthusiasts who prowl around looking for brown people to shoot. These are all still very localized and happen far, far away from the vision of the vast, vast majority of the population. It is also spreading, see Florida, but I would readily agree that America is becoming fascist in a recognizable fashion.
You can consider my thinking to be too cargo cult, but I think it's helpful as a heuristic to distinguish fascism from right-neoliberalism (and classical liberalism, going back to the Britain part).