Stone Toss - No, the other one
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Nah. Commies and technocrats ask what "what can my country do for me?". Fascists ask "what can I do for my country?". Libertarians ask "what can I do?", and will natural gravitate to the extreme that moderates the center, since both extremes will limit that.
Fascists ask "What has been ordered of me." Nationalists ask "What can I do for my country.
FTFY don't be dumb and conflate the two. They can happen as a pairing but they are not one and the same. To do so is to conceed the notion that the Left has a monopoly on the Non-authoritarian line of thinking.
People have fallen for that falsehood for centuries and we are just about having people wake up to the realisation that Authoritarianism, fascism is NOT just a right wing thing and nationalism is NOT a dirty word. Don't ruin it now.
So JFK was a fascist?
Not a hardcore FDR type fascist, but sure, a bit. Certainly an admirer of Hitler.