Price and wage controls, economic planning, progressive taxation, ceding individual property rights to the central government, no right to bear arms, comprehensive social welfare.
These some of the original cornerstones of fascist ideology. I fail to see how they square with the American right-wing (note that militarism, nationalism and etho-centrism, the other pillars of fascism, plague communist and socialist countries, also). In any event, early fascists called themselves both anti-marxist, anti-capitalist, and anti-clerical. That claim seems accurate; making most modern uses of "fascist" as an epithet ridiculous.
Five out of the first six have nothing to do with fascism. They are more akin to socialism than anything else, but fascism was a reactionary response against socialism. And out of your second list you're missing the lynch pin of fascism a strong police state which the current right promotes .
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