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one mr. alan dulles might disagree. look up that dude's entire career.
I think we were violently anti-fascist at any scale for about five minutes when the fascists fucked with the bag, and for that we turned the shattered glass in german streets to liquid. then went home and put slightly lower profile fascists right back in charge, poached their best fascists, and used their worst nazi murderhobo bastards to do "anti communism" around the world for the next thirty years while they trained up the next generation. the ones who were put in charge in japan weren't even low profile fascists. emperor stayed emperor, and a guy whose nickname was 'the monster of', who had a full time assistant to mop up the cum from all the rape he did while he ran the official military rape program, ran japan, his family stayed regular providers of prime ministers until some dude popped one with a homemade shotgun-gadget a couple years ago
i know that, i mean among the working class. tolerance for listening to a friend spouting nazi shit and fascist shit has been pretty low until recently, dogwhistles not withstanding. i mean there's a reason they dogwhistle so much, it's because their views are roundly rejected and they get bullied when they don't hide their beliefs
if that level of hate, aggression, suppression, etc. isn't enough to prevent the rise of fascism, it won't be enough to slow or stop it either. we need different tactics
I would argue that americans are pretty okay with fascism, but just don't like the aesthetics of being seen as the bad guys.