I've been reading some fascist literature recently in light of every person, pig, or dolphin to the right of Obama being called a fash. It occurs to me that I think the TDS folks would/does embrace a lot of fascist doctrine, they just don't realize it. In bullet points:
- the state takes care of everything, and ensures equality for people, so that the people can better serve the state, and thus the state can better serve the people (ad infinitum).
- A strong liberal arts education for the intellectual class, artists, and leaders
- Businesses should exist, but ultimately serve the state's needs rather than the owners, customers, or citizenry they effect
- Interventionalism geopolitics is a hard requirement and a moral good
- Egalitarianism is irresponsible - equal treatment of persons of differing characteristics is a moral wrong
- liberal capitalism has failed the world and should be given no comfort, and ultimately eradicated
It's interesting how no one really brings up the fact that fascism was spun up out of multiple failed socialist movements, and Mussolini was a socialist leader himself until he decided he needed a doctrine that served better to protect Italy from outside threats.
I think the stuff they disagree with w.r.t. is almost all cultural stuff, rather than policy. Fascists highly value work ethic, spirituality, societal contribution, tradition, respect of authority, national unity, the historical narrative, and anti-ndividualism. I'm not really sure why Trump gets called a fascist when his interlocutors themselves seem to like the politics but hate the culture.
Also, Trump being a fascist is so off the mark it's sort of laughable.