Let’s put it this way: One of the core tenets of fascism is that corporate and government power should be one and the same. When the world’s (somehow still) richest man humiliated himself on a public stage less than a week ago and declared his love for “Dark MAGA” while flaunting that he’d be seeking to be head of a “government efficiency” ministry should his Dear Leader win, that was just about as on-the-nose as one could be in establishing such a system.
You won’t see many if any MAGA openly declare that they love big companies and corporate oligarchies, but what you will hear is that very real issues facing workers can pretty much all be solved by harming immigrants and other minorities as opposed to forcing corporations to pay their fair share (“Socialism!”), giving unions their power back (“Communism!”) or implementing regulations to stop corporate interests from capturing political capital and buying their way into power (“Non-late stage capitalism!”).
Why, yes, the same can also be said of corporate Democrats and those that have been bought by those corporate interests, but while they “merely” seek the status quo, they aren’t openly seeking a dystopian corporatist hellscape like MAGA is.
It really has to be repeated time and time again: MAGA is a cancer that’s trying to push the Overton Window into the abyss of the section it’s currently in, from right wing authoritarianism towards pure fascism. It’s policies only appeal to the population to a degree it can get them to regurgitate talking points and falsehoods, but any sort of scrutiny whatsoever rapidly reveals that their endgame is absolute corporate control over government and suppression of the will of the people.
We can discuss infighting on the entirety of the political spectrum, from the far left that isn’t even present in the US to the so-called “Centrist” that’s actually far right but not comfortable enough to openly espouse fascism once the existential danger to democracy that is MAGA is fully eradicated. For now though, you’re either a complete monster or you’re not.
