Someone told me I was insane if I thought America was a fascist state. I politely asked them for some reading on Fascism so I could better understand what it is. Crickets.
Then the book suggestions are always Harry Potter and Live Love Laugh, since 'you never read a book that wasn't assigned to you' and also to 'go to college'. I can hear it in my memory like that convo happened just in January.
I've found being multiple minorities tends to mask off people to varying degrees, in a way I'm blessed with a gift, put me in a room and reactionary brain starts melting.
I feel like for there to be an answer to that question you have to ask yourself is fascism when the methods of a nations brutality are developing or when that brutality is brought home? In my opinion it is when the methods are developing.