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Learn to tell the difference between leftists and right wing trolls. Anyone can call themselves a leftist. There is no leadership in the leftist movements that have come within a thousand miles of equating Trump and Biden. Biden is an old school right wing corporate Democrat, not fascist Trumpian garbage.
Hence "loudly proclaim to be leftists". But many of them aren't trolls, at least not in the sense of not meaning what they're saying.
A real king doesn't need to say they are the king.
right wing corporatocracy is fascism.
Unfortunately, as bad as it is, it’s not. True fascism is much much worse
Mussolini would disagree, as well as any of the anarchist or communists he stabbed in the back.
Are you saying that Biden is fascist, or that he isn't a right wing corporatist? If Biden is fascist, what is Trump? Neoliberalism is on the far left (or centrist) side of right wing corporatism, and fascism is the far right side.
Neoliberalism thinks power comes from meritocracy, and Fascism thinks it comes from moral superiority. The first is rooted in the merchant class, and the other with the divine right of kings. That's why fascists turn on Jews so often, because they associate Jews with wealth and Christians with royalty or ecclesiastical power.
Mussolini made no such distinction. mechanized military states meet all the hallmarks of fascism: primacy of the state, and alignment of institutions with the interest of the state.
Neoliberalism is better described as alignment of the state with the interests of institutions. It's almost worse, except that the interests of different institutions aren't all aligned.
the state still has primacy, and the corporations are both chartered by the state and are subject to capricious prosecution for a myriad of laws if they threaten the power of the state.
US corporations don't seem particularly threatened by the state. Look how much trouble the all powerful state has had prosecuting just one obviously guilty as hell oligarch with a tiny fraction of the wealth controlled by the big corporations.