> If "fascism" (or some closely analogous movement) contests for power in
> the u.s., I suspect it won't be anti-gay. In fact, I suspect a _real_
> u.s. fascist movement wouldn't even be overtly racist or sexist.
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That would put it to the left of today's Republican party... :)
You may turn out to be accurate, if it comes to it, but what in that case would a growing American fascist movement be reacting to? I don't think you're accounting for the depth of "white anxiety" in the US - and Europe, for that matter - where the far right has been fueled primarily by immigration from developing countires. Consequently not only Hispanics, Muslims, blacks and other people of colour would come under more intense fire, but also their traditional allies in the labour unions, civil liberties groups, the women's movement, etc., who would be condemned as "traitors to the white race". The far right, like the far left, understands the historic links between different groups and social movements. If US sociiety were to polarize further, I expect a party of the left would be built primarily from people who today support the Democrats, and a far right party would deveop from people who today support the Republicans. These latter wouldn't leave their racist, sexist, and homophobic prejudices behind them; they would express them more virulently.
Historical traditions are rediscovered whem new movements arise, even though such movements are not carbon copies of the old. Remember how the New Left found its way back to the old IWW, Debs, Marx, Lenin, etc. without adopting all of the trappings of the older labour and socialist movement? The right has its own traditions, and Hitler's writings still circulate in US fascist circles today, and if that movement were to grow, I'd expect them to find wider circulation.