This is because we live in terminological confusion ever since the Allies beat The Axis in WW2.

They were officially fighting against "fascism", so officially, fascism ceased to exist after WW2 (with exceptions like Spain, although even there it was automatically whitewashed as something else, now that it had the support of the US).

However, the fusion of corporation and state IS the definition of fascism, and that's exactly the type of regimes we have in the West since the "Progressive Era" and "the Welfare State" happened. They just can't use the correct label, fascism, and choose "social democracy", "democratic socialism", and in the US even more obscure and misleading labels like "republicanism" and even "market economy". nostr:note1d6zhknwjp39f4lawg6rmz0qkktncyl2j40xsq6ywxlrdwy9wksvqjlt3wq