i think a lot of people in the American left have as bad habit of being myopically focused on the exact ways in which the American right is bad, and they try to project those things onto other countries in a way that fundamentally misunderstands a lot of things.
i mean, to be, clear, there are some patterns that repeat across different countries, such as widespread discontent being leveraged by horrible people into right-wing populist nationalist movements. trump and tories and bolsonaro and etc.
but not every fight is a fight between fascists who hate government services and love guns versus very online queer communists. a lot of countries have a historical relationship to fascism and how they view it that is very dissimilar to the US, like how Russia disingenously presents itself as the ultimate anti-fascists, or how Germany was forced to realize that it could happen there and as a result has in the modern day some of the strictest laws around depicting or promoting that kind of thing.
so much of the US's national narrative is predicated on the idea that WWII was a righteous war that we eagerly joined to fight the Nazis, and that's led to a strange duality where the actual vocabulary of things like "Nazi" have incredibly negative connotations, and yet we never really reckoned with or rejected the roots of fascist ideology.
