‘Fascism’ (the apostrophes are deliberate & signify not-a-real-thing) is so very dangerous for it rises not from the mind but the belly. It is not a thoughtful style of politics but a lurking crocodile waiting to snap at whatever passes. Born of the limbic brain as Koestler would have said.
No fascist ever produced great literature or reasoned theses; worse they never read them as a pastime. What is eerie is that the fascists of history were all so unenlightened, so wilfully ignorant yet somehow they are so alike and share common, limbic, attributes …
For reference: this idea, that the political geography of the fascist arises spontaneously, (as opposed to developed in some manner by thinking) was prompted by reading a very striking book: ‘The First Fascist’ by Sergio Luzzato. A ‘must read’ if you are interested in the history of hate. Note: apparently it first arises in France, (pace!), may have something to do with the disappointments of the 1789 revolution, but grows to become a widespread European phenomenon where those disappointments are acutely felt …
Example: what is particularly striking about Trump – who probably cannot read – is that he comes across as a ‘genetic’ descendent of these European monsters, an ignoramus who simply appears as though stamped out of a template …