It's a sliding scale and it's recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.

Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn't conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.

The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.

At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor's seat. Yes.

USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.

USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.

They helped building it, by constantly taking the "moral high ground" (succumbing to fascists, not calling them fascists because some people making racist jokes might weren't actually fascists).