It is though. And has been for decades.

But we can’t give up

By facists, or by communists?

Fascism is pre-communiam. Communism is brought by first implementing fascism. And I can't spell facshism without autocorrect, but arguing that one or the other is bad is just a matter of time scales.

Do you agree with the definition of facism , that it's the "merging of private corporations and the state"?

Yeah. Communism builds on that. It's the abolishment of private property and it's reallocation by the public state. But the public state is inevitably centrally controlled and you get socialism. They're all the same imo.

Trey this might accidentally, and almost comically (in an insane Vonnegut type of way), be the most controversial position one can hold today

“Off with his head!” they yell as he’s chased down the streets

Yes.

Communism is a utopian class and stateless society. Socialism is about worker owned means of production and abolishing classes. Nothing of this has anything to do with fascism. In fact the original italian fascists where heavily sponsored by the capitalist class in order to protect their private property from socialist movements, which where reaching majority numbers at the time. Fascism or similar totalitarian regimes gaining power is a REACTION to increasing unrest in the population do to the negative consequences of increased wealth concentration and inequality, which is a consequence of capitalism.

Both movements reemerging are a consequence of the increasing wealth inequality that is created by capitalism reachinhg a boiling point. I don't think we are quite there yet. What we see today in Trump is just a clown trying to fix the economy with completely inappropriate tools and keep the status quo of the power of the capitalist class as best as he can. Mamdani may call himself a democratic socialist, but his policies are mild forms of social democratic reforms, which are essentially small fixes to capitalism to make it more palatable to the population. But this will obviously change as the wealty inequality rapidly gets worse and living conditions even for the "middle class" get ever more challenging.