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This is one of those things where people are desperate for the label and all the old baggage of the label, but the label has faded.
No, the current US government isn't a fascist one. Yes, someone has called every single administration since Hitlers a "fascist regime". The most fascist government the US ever had, with minorities in internment camps, a militarized society, rationing and government control of industry, was the one that fought Hitler.
Similar to the time there was a poll and a majority of Republicans said they wouldn't vote for Trump if he were a convicted felon, so the Democrats went out and got an extreme technicality "felony conviction", and the Republicans..........didn't care. If you want me to care about fascism, it can't be this banal. We've heard all this before, remember Trump's first term? Trans genocide? Coup? Cancelling elections? FASCISM? None of it happened.
This boy's been crying wolf since the 1930s, every four years like clockwork. Time to let him squall. "Muh Fascism" gtfo.
The specific claim that a trans genocide is around the corner is still being trotted out.
That actually seems like a much weaker version of what I see as the most common argument in favor of the idea that trans genocide is a real thing that people should be concerned about - not merely as a future possibility but as something that is happening and has been happening for a long time. Which is that, an environment where misgendering someone doesn't carry severe penalties or where transwomen aren't fully welcomed into women's sports and their locker rooms in a way that's indistinguishable from regular women or any number of other well known demands by people claiming to speak on behalf of trans people, will necessarily discourage some trans-curious people from deciding that they are trans and, instead, stick with their sex. This results fewer trans people than in the fictional alternative universe where all these demands were met, which, when you do enough of it, is actually just genocide.
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