Something I think about from time to time is how fascists love to appropriate history to their ends. Even when the actual history doesn't really support their case as well as they think it does. Case in point, Rome.

note that the white supremacist weirdos real obsessed with their masculine Nordic heritage never, ever dress as cool as this

Saw a very normie winemom-seeming person today with a sign that read “Newsom is the enemy of my enemy and they can both go to hell”

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.