Abolitionists didn’t know *how* it could happen, suffragettes didn’t know *how* it could happen and civil rights workers didn’t know *how* it could happen. They just knew they were going to *make* it happen. And that’s the grit that we need now: fascism will not stand in America.

Can you define fascism please. Or point to a definition you like. I'm starting to thing you're throwing the term around carelessly.

This one is fine with me: “Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition & strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.”

If you subtract the temporal element, then according to your definition, the abolitionists, the suffragettes and the civil rights workers were all resisting various forms of fascism. It would seem, then, that America has actually always stood for fascism.