I've lived most of my life around Republicans. I can tell you they were NOT fascist until two years ago when they reacted out of fear to liberals burning down entire towns over one incident where a cop murdered a black criminal, with no evidence that it was even racially motivated. When you behave like that, people are going to flee to the exact opposite of what you advocate for. So when liberals claim to represent minorities, and then do things like that, of course it's going to make others weary of minorities. Guilt by association is very powerful, even if it's a false association; it can easily slander an entire population. So too is the Streisand effect: when the people behaving that way do nothing but complain about fascism, and constantly accuse their opponents of fascism, their opponents will be drawn to fascism because they feel if their enemy is suppressing something, there's probably something good about it.