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Fascism does not happen in a vacuum. It happens when the political system becomes stagnant leading voters to turn to populism for political change. The right embraced this to secure control of the state, the Democrats dug their heels in the dirt and consistently supported third way Democrats who consistently sold off social safety networks and progressive rights to secure economic benefits for the wealthy donor class.
And a lot of people who "voted for facism" are just average citizens who don't look to deeply into politics (either don't care, understand, or have time/energy) and just bought the right wing lie of "fix economy, gib jobs, lower fuel price, tough on crime" etc. And went with that.
Yeah, some of the voters are straight up facist, but people here are being too hard on people who's time and energy is squashed by the hyper capitalist machine and are surrounded by propaganda