Fascism with American Characteristics: Inequality

In concept, for a fascist, the nation is the organism, and each individual (other than the leader, of course) is just an equally replaceable cell. Consequently, Mussolini started his political life as a socialist, and organized his Fascist Party along socialist lines. The Nazi Party, too, was nominally socialist. It set Hitler’s movement apart from the traditional conservative parties.

The reality, of course, was very different. Fascists value businessmen as a source of wealth and expertise, and fear them as a potential point of opposition. Fascist countries, therefore, typically embrace capital and repress labor. What about American fascists?

It would be the same story. Regressive tax cuts would be paired with a warning to shut up and dribble. Labor would be bamboozled with propaganda and nationalism. Business would find that deal acceptable, and life would go on more or less as before.