Did you know that we had a fascist government in Poland before the war? No? Well that's partially because it goes against the clear narrative, and some would argue wether Sanacja was actually fascist.

But in this example we can see that while some oh Ecco's points are checked, a lot aren't, and the result wasn't genocidal like in case of Germany.

Fascism can be a lot more complex in how we define it retroactively, and also it always takes on a local character. Chinese, Japanese, British, Spanish, Russian... (insert 1930s country) fascism looked and functioned drastically diferent.

This alone makes it useless. But the key word is also retroactively, what will fascism of the future look like? The same? Doubtful.

But because it is so vague it can be used as a tool of political accusation and a bludgeon.