With the rapidly worsening of the material conditions of the general population in the 'west', will we see a rerun of the early 20th century? I feel we are approaching the point where the bourgeoisie are so desperate to cling on that the 'democratic' institutions of today might be in danger.
If you are a member of a marginalized group of people living within the imperial core, you are in constant danger from the sharp edges of Actually Existing Fascism. I think it's important to remember that most of the residents of the early fascist states were not huddled terrorized masses. They were indifferent or satisfied with the fascist regimes. Germans especially - in the post-war period, the Nazis were discredited not because of their atrocities, but because they brought war and defeat to Germany. A think similar conditions have existed for decades in "the west" today. We haven't seen a conflagration on the scale of WW2 since then, but there have been plenty of wars of similar intensity and depravity (the decades of wars of decolonization being the major example).