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Forget politics for a moment. Think if any fantasy novel movie, story... Lord of the Rings, He Man, whatever. You think Gondor wasn't a fascist stat or at least closer to one than a democracy or whatever the hell we call the US? You think Rivendell had a Republican form of government? Or do you think King Aragorn ruled as king? And Elrond ruled as Lord. And do you think Aragorn was overly preoccupied with making sure Easterners and Orcs felt comfortable in the white city? Every fantasy media dating back a thousand years is a kingdom of homogeneous people sharing a history, bloodline, culture, ethics, religion, language, arts, etc. Top to bottom it was a cohesive society that protected itself and it's interests from outside forces and from internal subversion. Any boy who ever dreamed of becoming a knight didn't imagine becoming a king to replace his subjects with new ones. He had a set group of people in mind who he intended to "save". And only in the past half century have we pretended this is somehow bad or evil or unnatural when it's the most natural state of man ever.
Fantasy media is a proxy celebration of white peoples, cultures, and nations. The popularity of the genre was borne in the ruthless suppression of any organic celebration of white cultures. A similar thing happened with the recent 80s nostalgia kick, which was a proxy celebration of a pre-invasion America.
To be clear, you're arguing that medieval monarchies were 'fascist' - or at least closer to fascism than to our collectivistic oligarchy? That's the very opposite of the truth. The United States is far closer to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany than medieval France was: it has a standing army, there is centralized government, worship of the state, etc.
That's just called civilization.