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And your counter suggestion is what, rolling over?
The only thing that solves fascism is incredible violence. There's just no way to get enough people to act yet. It will happen when people run out of reasons to comply with laws that only apply to them, but theres going to be a lot of suffering and misery inflicted on us all before enough people say fuck it and grab a brick.
That's not exactly true.
The deposition of the Greek junta in 1974 resulted in the deaths of 24 protestors (estimated) at the hands of a fascist tank, but no large-scale violence broke out. Infighting within the junta and the junta's invasion of Cyprus caused far more death than the revolution did.
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal that same year only resulted in 4-6 deaths, total, all caused by the reaction of the regime being overthrown; no one was killed by the revolutionaries.
In Spain, just a year later, Francisco Franco died of natural causes; and while I wouldn't call what happened over the next few years "peaceful," it wasn't quite two years from the death of Franco to the new government's first successful election, and that time wasn't marked by anything I would call "incredible violence."
Uruguay transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy in the mid-1980s. It was a little over a year between the first General Strike and the inauguration of the first democratically-elected president of the new government (though some elements of democracy had been filtering back into the government for the previous few years). No one was killed by the anti-fascists.
Pinochet's incredibly violent rule in Chile ended with an election and a peaceful (albeit extended) transfer of power between 1988-1990.
Today, all of these countries have a score of 85 or higher on the Freedom House index.
There are other similar examples: Argentina in 1982, the Philippines and the People Power Revolution in 1986, South Africa defeating apartheid in 1994, even South Korea last December. Not all of those are great examples, whether because they didn't stand the test of time or because they weren't "quite as bad" to start off with, but it certainly seems that in the modern era, defeating fascism can be done nonviolently.
Will it be done nonviolently in the US? I don't know. All I know is, every fascist regime in history has either fallen or is in the process of falling. It's just a matter of time, and how many people die along the way.
Definitely true. One way or the other, this isn't going to be a fun time.