Marc James Léger:
I don't think you're going to get very far by 
replacing politics with questions of morality
when I studied in Rochester the fascism that was trickling down came 
from neoliberals, careerists, left postmodernists, garden variety jerks,
so-called feminists and queers ( word used in correct manner ) - who,
as members of the professional-managerial class, were unconcerned
about the people they step on, just making sure that the Reaganomics 
did not keep them out of the club
that's why I focus on the similarities and affinities between
traditional fascism and anti-liberal, anti-Marxist postmodern
theories that are anti-Enlightenment and anti-universality, 
wherein identity politics = cross-class collaboration in the
interest of upward mobility and anti-communism
this now includes: radical democracy, left populism, intersectionality, 
decoloniality, critical race theory, privilege theory, afro-pessimism, 
whiteness studies, and the like 
this is the missing link in today's discussion: how we went from
civil rights within democracy to anti-universal power politics
( a.k.a. postmodern nihilism )
by the way,
Kant defined his ethics-aesthetics as anti-social sociability
that explains why Szarkowski and Dan liked you so much