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Americans have a very specific idea of what fascism and nazism are and partially define themselves in the national myth by their (fabricated) historic opposition nazism.
So long as they are american they can't be nazis, by definition. If an american calls another american a fascist or a nazi its taken to be a meaningless insult.
I suspect this only ends when they manage to reinvent the whole fucking thing from the start and play it out to the bitter end.
Everyone else needs to claw public education back from austerity vultures in their own countries or prepare for a similar slide into ignorant helplessness.