Mussolini’s fascism was a relationship between government and business. The fasces, the bundle of staffs around the axe. What today its proponents would call public, private partnerships and what its detractors would call regulatory capture. That revolving door between government and business.

Maybe you should use the term Nazism, National Socialism, as that was a more tribal theory of nationalism.

Not to be too prejudicial, but the Italians were the internationalists, while the Germans were the nationalists. Rome versus the Barbarian Hordes, remember?

It is quite interesting “The Man” is using the flip side of racism as the current manifestation of divide and conquer. Originally it was used to keep poor whites and freed slaves from identifying along class lines. Remember that King was assassinated when he’d moved beyond racial issues and was planning the Poor Peoples March, on Washington.

Now poor whites are the enemy, but many of them are gen x'ers and millennials, who grew up in fairly mixed race situations, or at least consumed it through the media. So it does open up the possibility they all start realizing the extent to which they are being gaslighted.

Especially since this current political and economic situation seems about as stable as a bonfire on thin ice.