Upvoted, because I largely agree, but I think there is a significant difference between them. Mainly that fascism is unstable. Liberalism and it’s rise were far more stable. It’s that very stability that makes it so much more dangerous. Liberalism is about the export of the suffering and death that capitalism requires while fascism is about embracing it. That difference doesn’t seem like much, but it’s the reason liberalism has given us an imperial core while fascism has been unable to achieve that.

I think westerners largely fear fascism because it would mean we have to experience the same thing liberalism has doled out to the rest of the world.