GenZedong

You gotta get specific about what could happen:

Why would the US create death camps? Because of risk of revolt. So that means if the lumpen start getting organized, the risk of death camps becomes real.

Invasion of neighbors is unlikely because strategically it creates way larger borders and the conditions for international intervention.

Invasion of further countries is possible, for a number of reasons, but that will just create proxy wars, which... we're already there.

So what other than industrializing death are you concerned about? If that's the only thing, then you should see that we're already fascist, we're already taken over, we're already in that place, we just don't have the rebellion that requires that tactic to be implemented.

Americans are not just fascist, they perfected it.

Yes, because the US is fascist and indoctrinates its children almost immediately upon their birth but most thoroughly through their schooling.

have you considered your political science curriculum is determined by western ideology and incredible biased and chauvinistic?

The US is absolutely fascist toward indigenous and black people. Communist parties aren't illegal (because pretending that they have freedom of speech and association is required to uphold their national myth), but if they're led by black people (e.g. the Black Panthers), they're brutally repressed. It may not be fascist from the perspective of the settlers, but having a relatively privileged ethnic majority and heavily persecuted ethnic minorities is a core part of fascism

Most of those are quite business as usual for capitalism though. Calling it fascist while good for drawing a parallel isn’t entirely true.

This is going to come down to what words mean, which is dependent on your ideology. As it turns out, European fascism IS capitalism - it comes from capitalism, it protects capitalism, it is required to maintain capitalism, it uses techniques developed through capitalism, it does not destroy capitalism nor replace it. So what's the difference between ideological European racialized capitalism, as a historical phenomenon, and European fascism? From a materialist stand point, literally nothing. From a propaganda standpoint, it's that the violence of capitalism is turned towards Europeans.

Its peak capitalist settler colonialism which is pretty close but not entirely fascist.

Again, settler colonialism is fascism, just directed at non-whites.

Communist parties are still legal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

people still have some civil protections (not many, but far more than you’d have in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy)

They had civil protections. The idea that this is a distinguishing feature is the perspective of white person living in a fascist empire that has been indoctrinated to believe that those other fascists are the real fascists. Just look at the civil liberties of blacks, indigenous, women, queer, and other oppressed groups in the USA.

The US is basically diet fascist

The USA birthed the Third Reich ideologically and scientifically. The Third Reich studied the apartheid of the USA and applied it. They studied our eugenics programs and applied them. They studied our enslavement, our prisons, our management of indigenous genocide and they replicated it.

When the Third Reich was defeated, the USA protected its members, it's distributed them all over the Western hemisphere through Operation Paperclip and distributed them all over Europe through Operation Gladio. They incorporated the Nazis into NATO leadership.

The USA isn't diet fascism, it's the fascist reservoir from which other fascist movements have historically emerged and to which those movements recede.