Could be. Thanks to the civility bs at least here instutitions fall in line with the fash. It becomes very organized very fast when they can use government power and laws to cement their fashy goals.
I work public sector and it's already very visible. The changes happen on all institutional levels and oppression intensifies sort of automatically almost as the system implements itself according to the laws these fascists write. This is the weimar situation all over again in many ways.
No. Even my partner developed a huge Marx beard after he became a full tankie.
Clean shaven is like living willingly under bourgeois control.