I've heard far more of the latter, including other fascist reasons like "being an ethnostate", training all their citizens to become useful tools for the nation, etc.
It's fascinating because this means there exists a potential future where as Americans' material conditions further worsen, and they start to lose their faith in capitalism/neoliberalism and liberal democracies, they may willingly push for fascism or a dictatorship
Sort of reminds me of the contradictions in antisemetic tropes. As in thinking "Jews are inferior" while also believing that "Jews secretly control the world". The combination of the two doesn't make any actual sense, but does give the believer a sense of feeling superior while also allowing them to wallow in their own sense of victimhood or being on the "good" side, which is a powerful emotional combo.