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Yes. They are.
Less fascist is better than more fascist, but it's still fascist. Just some different aesthetics to keep the placatium palatable. Still corporatist fascist. Still fascist.
Check out the current voter suppression, and the [oft Democrat [and Republican] aligned [but not 3rd party/green/libertarian/independent aligned nor neutral]] corporate media "crystallising public opinion", and other parallels to the defining historic examples of fascism, in how they suppress opposition to preserve the dictatorial power and subordination of individual interests to the state, and how it promotes national rebirth ("CHANGE" as the perpetual political slogan, anyone?) to carry on with its "militarism" (jingoist hegemony and national supremacist global domination).
... Or keep complicitly hiding what's going on peddling placatium, and just keep repeating "USA Number 1" and "Land of the free" harder along with some "lesser" evil hopium.
1st ammendment is there to assure that freedom.
The freedom to hold dear to the whataboutisms of comfort in pointing at terrifying worse to keep terrifyingly convinced ones own groupthink is the right one, is the same freedom to strive to attain the mark of an educated mind, able to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting nor rejecting it.
Supporting and enabling fascism is still fascism.
... Oh but it's less fascism. They said the one true way we're to think is like this and it's nicer than the one true way the other side have. ... Stay divided and conquered, while ever falling for the one true way of a groupthink, and the crooks will take everything from you, while you still are yet to stop falling for it.
Sublimating out of it is impossible?
No.
It's necessary.