Late Stage Capitalism

Every single president incrementally adds to the fascism of America. Reagan's neoliberal abandonment of Americans who needed help and the massive consolidation of the financialization of the economy. Bush 1 was the first formal fusion of the CIA and the presidency. Clinton, as governor, had black house slaves, and as president, sexually dominated at least one subordinate that we know of. He also was at the helm as NATO when it expanded to become an offensive, and not purely defensive, transnational nuclear military. Bush 2 created free speech zones, oversaw massive domestic spying and immunity for companies who broke the law, the opening up of private for-profit military collaboration beyond anything previously seen, and of course all the torture and war crimes. Obama expanded the president's power to just kill whoever wherever whenever through drone strikes, killing civilians at weddings and funerals (and funerals for those who died at the weddings), and even killing US citizens abroad.

not saying all your points aren’t true. But they don’t determine fascism

When you save 10k Nazis from justice, that's not a tell for you? When you and the Soviets rebuild Germany, and your side has openly former Nazi politicians taking political office while the Soviet side purged all fascists, that's not a tell for you? When you form NATO and staff it with former Nazi officers, that's not a tell? And when you direct NATO to organize, fund, arm, and manage neo-nazi groups and former Nazi collaborators into standing militias and terrorist cells, that's not a tell?

is the personal Führer cult in combination with the open hate of democracy and ‘might makes right’ philosophy.

Have you been to the US? Are you aware of the insane cult of personality we have around nearly every single US president? The media spectacle? The us vs them? The angel/devil photography? Do you know what we teach our kids in school about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln? Like, Jefferson is literally worse than Trump. Trump was a consumer in Epstein's ring. Jefferson literally ran slave plantations, bred slaves for sale, raped his slaves and sold the children that came from those rapes, and tried but failed to use his political power to ban the transatlantic slave trade so that his slaves would fetch a higher price and make him richer.

Obama ordered crimes against humanity and was the head of an imperial engine, but his government still showed allegiance to democracy and to institutions instead of persons.

So you're saying aesthetically he wasn't openly fascist but in actuality, he was? Fascism is determined by aesthetics for you?

You can have a fully democratic empire conquering the world and it still wouldn’t be fascist

This is such a contradictory sentence. No, you cannot both have a fully democratic empire and conquer the world. That would be a partially democratic empire. Specifically it would only be democratic for the "in-group". For the US, that in-group is white, male, hetero, patriarchal, Euro-Centric, Anglo-Centric, property owning, capitalistic, and Christian. That's LITERALLY fascism when it's coupled with killing millions of people to maintain your empire. It's also the farthest thing from "fully democratic" when democracy works for the ultraminority white supremacists and everything is might-makes-right full on subjugation of the rest of the world, including the indigenous people you displaced and continue to oppress daily.

And don't forget that the US imprisons more of its own people than anyone else in the world (El Salvador and Cuba just passed us for 1 year, but are historically lower) and that's JUST in prison. The parole system, where we surveil their entire lives, garnish their wages, tell them where to be when and then throw them back in prison for any missed requires, is TWICE AS LARGE as our prison population. We are the world leader in dominating our own people.

But that's not fascist enough with the aesthetics?

But now they fully took off any masks of democracy the Democrats were smart enough to still keep on.

They still haven't taken the masks off. Just watch them in the UN. Watch them on television. Read their papers. YOU have figured out that they're lying. But they're still actively lying. You are just finally part of the group that sees it. Other people, particular the victims of US imperialism, have seen it for literally decades. You were part of the group of people, as was I, that thought "Death to America" and calling America "The Great Satan" was only done by people who don't understand us and who are actually evil in their hearts. You are realizing that they're right, but you think it's only really appropriate for THIS administration. It's not. Keep reading history. Keep analyzing the situation. We were founded by people who trafficked humans, raped them, and tortured them. We are still being run by people who do those same things. We were founded by people who were traveling around the world killing anyone that wasn't a white Christian man and convincing other white Christian men on the basis of their white Christianity to help them do it. We are still operating a country that follows that exact same program.

EuroFascism as we know it from Italy and Germany emerged from the European context. It was quite literally European settler colonialism applied on the continent. The first gas chambers were invented by the French to kill masses of Haitian freedom fighters. The US was a fascist apartheid regime for most of its history. Every single town or city called "Fort Something" was literally a military base for killing every single Indian that didn't manage to run away.

It's ALWAYS been this bad. The way we use language it's almost as if fascism was new when Hitler and Mussolini did their thing. But the reality is that they were just applying the logic of their context, which the same logic America, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the settler colonies were founded on. Every. Single. One.