I remember from a documentary, The House I Live In, an anecdote:

There's a historian, Richard Miller, who describes the American "War on Drugs" ,as a similar parallel species of fascist control, as a campaign to destroy people. People who are mostly poor, and mostly of color.

He calls this process, the "chain of destruction". As follows: identification of "who is responsible for our woes", ostracization of those identified people, confiscation of their property, concentration of people in prisons or camps, and finally annihilation of people.

It isn't in bad taste to notice echoes and parallels of social destruction. We can rightfully notice that fascism is self-destructive and cannibalistic, but as we have learned in the late 20th and 21st centuries is that fascism can be malleable and adaptive as it shuffles between its open nature and liberal democracy. The problem of liberal democracy is in its toleration of fascist ideology, its adherents; the greater problem lies in disempowerment of the masses of people who abhor or are disgusted by fascists, yet wield no counter-ideological faith and tenets reaffirming values of life and liberty supreme over rights of property and scapegoat.