Reactionary thought in America is typically associated with states’ rights. Fascism, on the other hand, by definition involves a direct tie between the country’s leader and the nation as a whole. If the GOP takes power and successfully implements the Orban Option, how would this contradiction be resolved?
There would be a substantial degree of decentralization. Slightly reformed red state governments could be relied upon to impose and enforce the religious and racial tests that would be at the heart of the new regime, while censorship would be handled at the national level. But what about the blue states?
The military would have to be purged and used as an occupying force, but that, by itself, would not be enough to run the blue states. Local collaborators, mostly from rural areas, would have to be recruited. Finally, talented reactionaries would have to be mobilized in red states in large numbers, carefully organized, and sent to the blue states to run state and local governments and crush any remaining opposition.
Think of carpetbaggers, only in reverse.