The past 4 years have been an extremely interesting real time look into psychology and how easily minds can be shaped by astroturfing campaigns, propaganda, and social engineering.

These people are proposing war time measures, and are using actual wars to justify it, without even pretending to have any awareness of why that is a problem.

“Trumpism” is not fascist in any way, but people are either convinced that it is, or one of those doing the convincing. In order to stop the “rise of fascism” they advocate for a system that authoritarians would love to have their hands on, and at least some of those advocates wish to be those authorities.