I know Libertarians don't think that they're Fascists, because they think of Fascism as a form of Socialism which they oppose,

but,

the historical reality is that in America, Libertarianism and Fascism have been deeply intertwined since the 1930s. The America First movement, for instance.

It was shared opposition to the New Deal that drew them together, and is still what holds them together in the Cryptocurrency scene, since undoing New Deal financial regulation is that scene's primary goal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee

Was AIC completely wrong in its opposition to WW2? I'm not sure. I think that war caused some major geopolicy disasters. Strategic bombing and nuclear annihilation perhaps the largest, but not by any means the only one.

But it's obvious that the AIC scene was linked to American businessmen who both hated the rise of Progressive economic regulation, and deeply admired the actually-existing German and Italian Fascists.

Those links have never gone away.

Libertarians and Fascists - despite one claiming to be individual-centred and the other race-centred - also both share a deep love for "an aesthetic of violence". It's very obvious and almost unique to both tribes.

They love guns; they love war games; they love the idea and ideal of the strong, lone (almost always masculine) genius hero wielding violence to conquer.

They both love competition for competition's sake; love the iconography of "the smart wolf picking off the dumb sheep".

They both love the iconography of Italian Futurism (the art movement that fed Italian Fascism) and worship power, speed, force, and machines.

The 1980s - with Reagan and the rise of Libertarian economic ideas in American culture - saw a surge in the Italian Futurist aesthetic.

Much of Silicon Valley resonates to these themes today, with minor variations. Even the Italian Futurism is back.

Futurism isn't always bad in itself... but the image of the man with a gun pointing the way, I think is.

To be clear: Marxists also have an aesthetic of violence, and I'm very not a fan of that one either.

The Marxist aesthetic of violence though looks and feels different to the Fascist/Libertarian one.

Broadly: the Marxist aesthetic is the riot. "The people's righteous rage" from below, with low-tech improvised weaponry. The Fascist/Libertarian aesthetic tends much more towards the lone hero with high technology, outnumbered by the mob but "holding the line".

I don't trust either of these.