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I'd say that historically fascism is a somewhat nebulous term that tries to cover a few disparate movements, but generally speaking has been a capitalist response to a rising domestic communist movement, and so in Marxism has a very specific/scientific meaning in that regard. So without that movement in the United States currently existing Trump doesn't qualify in my opinion.
But what if through indoctrination you turn generations of Americans into sleeper agents who will begin frothing at the mouth with fear and anger at the thought of a ‘communist’.
Then start calling lunch ladies communists.
The US is having a stand alone complex type movement where the fascism is a response to a communist movement that doesn't exist
the real communism was the enemies we imagined along the way