re: Why do so many people on this board think that liberals are "fascists?"

If your definition of fascism begins and ends with Hitler, then sure it fits your attempted Trump narrative but he didn’t create fascism. Mussolini created it and didn’t dwell on the past at all. He despised the monarchy. It’s true he did try to expand Italy’s influence militarily but the military was poorly run, trained, and organized. General Franco in Spain also fascist in principles, kept Spain out of WW2 and also despised Spain’s colonialist history. You seem to have forgotten that Hitler himself very much despised the industrial complex in terms of private enterprise and implemented numerous public works projects. I guess you have hyper patriotism going for you but the Nazis made soldiers sign an oath of allegiance to Hitler not the Fatherland.