My point is simply that her moral indignation and illusions of moral decay are a basic tenant of fascism, alongside the hyper nationalist populism and the mythic appeal to returning to a past normalcy that (likely) never existed. Make Italy Great Again. That's fascism 101, by any basic historical or political theory measure.
I agree and disagree with your posts on this. These things predate fascism, actual fascism (not "fascist" politicians, there's a difference) was not really appealing to a past but a SUPERIOR FUTURE (™ held by MovieBob) the fascist attacks on the modern liberal society were that they had weakened the once strong state but the fascists had no interest in returning to the specific governance conditions of those states only the position of strength. The fascists held many of those states to also be inherently corrupt and weakened for not moving in fascist directions but instead giving up their strength by following liberalism. At the same time, the anarcho-libertarian position is that while the fascist states lost the war, the fascists won politically as all modern politics appeal in the same ways the fascists did. It's not just Make [Z] Great Again but also the Obama campaign was equally fascist in the things it appealed to. The "Third Way" mystique never went away even after the fascists failed to figure out what it was supposed to be which leaves modern "leftists" and "rightists" both able to claim the fascists as their opposition by pointing to both rhetoric and practice of the fascists.
Someone like Viktor Orban both complicates and supports theories of fascist resurgence, there's no past of Hungary to appeal to which is why they have to falsify it to appeal to the conservatives in the coalition, the real political appeal is to a mythic Hungarian
future that will avoid the failures of the past by resisting liberalism. Trump (and Obama before him) appeals in the same way, his appeal to modern American failure makes no sense if you actually listen to the specific claims but the notion appeals because you can't say "America always sucked" and have
Americans listen. This disconnect fits into the original fascist states of the war period, the fascists of Italy, Spain and Germany didn't need to appeal to mythic pasts, all of those cultures had strong past states in their history, the appeal was to how those states fell to their current situation (liberalism) and how the fascists could avoid it (tbd) in the now.
We do a disservice to our liberal politics to focus our fears so much on fascism when illiberalism need not ever adhere to fascism to find traction and success.
