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Yeah, because in the past 150 years we didn't have liberal democracies match these criteria and it being considered "business as usual".

Nationalism? That's the main way liberals distract from class and enforce unity of the people's.

Mass media control? Yeah, mass media controlled strictly by private capitalists who always spread a handful of narratives that only serve to reinforce the dominant ideology and never going against it.

Common enemyism? Just look at geopolitics for 0.001s

Rampant sexism? Women were the property of men with no voting rights for a long time under liberalism, with fierce opposition to women's suffrage.

And so on and so on. Also liberalism -> fascism model isn't real, else every country would have gone fascist already. Fascism is a tool for a specific kind of situation (economic crisis + worker militancy threatening capital existentially), but often it isn't needed and electorialism can be preserved which is the defining feature of liberal democracies. Besides, under crisis there's nothing stopping a democratic liberal democracy from committing atrocities fascists would to save itself and the system.

I agree with the rest of your point, but I do want to remark that communist states do entwine state and religion: they don't leave people's religious beliefs alone, they promote atheism and discriminate against religious people, as well as gradually hijack leadership positions of religious organizations.

Now, granted, the OP didn't say anything about corporatism, which was originally developed as a comprehensive ideology under Italian fascism. However, it's not as simple as in the OP - "corporate power protected" and "labor power suppressed". In fascism, both corporate and labor power are subservient to the state, and fascist corporatism involved the input of both private industrial interests and labor interests. Ultimately it was the state making the decisions, though. I suppose it's important to remember that fascism arose as a response to class conflict in the aftermath of the industrial revolution - a third way between bourgeois liberalism and communism. In this sense, the point was to establish an equilibrium between capital and labor. Corporatism was the means to that end. In fascism, in practice, this often meant that capital simply colluded with the state, and left-radicalism in labor was violently stamped out so the workers could be brought to heel. Workers were then treated quite well, assuming they didn't run afoul of the state because they belonged to one of the many groups that fascists considered enemies.

Many European nations still practice forms of corporatism, although today the state is more like an equal partner to the other parties. So I guess my point is that corporatism is not distinctly fascist, despite developing under fascism.