Another thing worth mentioning is fascism's frequent conflation of Freedom and License, to use John Milton's terms. This, paired with anti-intellectualism, is one of the reasons fascism has been so effective in America in particular, in my mind. Freedom (defined here as an absence of oppression) is inherently anti-hierarchal. License (defined here as the ability to do what one pleases) only reaches new heights in hierarchy, as it grants the ability to influence not just the self, but others as well. The critical lack of distinction between these two ideas is precisely the means by which America, a country rife with anti-intellectualism, has so effectively been inundated with fascism, despite its claims to being "The Land of the Free." When one fails to investigate the substantive meaning of freedom, one almost invariably comes to misconstrue it in a way that makes far too many allowances.

None of these ideas are new, btw, I just have combined them in a framework that feels meaningful for me. If you want a really good explainer on the antagonism between modern art and fascism, for example, see this lovely video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5DqmTtCPiQ&t=2s

Let he who believes textile work is not difficult labor make his own pair of pants

Go and spread the Trump Slump, make memes and cry out loud on twitter

May his legacy be as rotten as his heart and mind

[Source] On the incompetence of totalitarianism