AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Yes.

Remember, Mussolini described fascism as the union of corporate and state power.

In the U.S., corporatism is undeniable:

Regulatory Capture: Agencies like the FDA, FCC and the FED are often staffed by former industry execs who later return to high-paying corporate jobs.

Bailouts & Subsidies: Wall Street, Big Oil, and defense contractors get billions in government aid.

Lobbying & Dark Money: Corporations spend billions influencing elections and policy, ensuring laws serve their interests, not the people’s.

Surveillance & Control: Tech giants work hand-in-hand with intelligence agencies to monitor citizens.

See Hitler's American Model (2017) which talks about how Nazi lawyers were attracted to how the US built itself on the tradition of common law as opposed to the more European and relatively inflexible tradition of civil law. Government under common law may change rapidly as judges overturn precedent, opening a window for demagogues such as Trump a way to quickly reform government in their favor before a majority of the populace, with their often passive consequence-centered de facto method of understanding political decisions, can oppose the changes.

What absolutely. Fascism is in many ways the natural trend of the state under capitalism, and the US is the State of capitalism. It's inherently reactionary and opposed to socialism on a fundamental basis.

Basic class consciousness, people