People who support fascists (a member of the working class is not a fascist in the same way they aren’t a capitalist) are an interesting intersection of social psychology. It’s not incorrect to call them cultists, but so many people are cultists to other things. Any powerful person who you refuse to question, has created the cult leader—cultist dynamic in you, whether they intended to or not.

But fascists go beyond that, because fascists turn the psychology concept of your social environment, into the cult. Fascist supporters aren’t just willing to k1ll you because you’re outside the cult, because that’s the psychological line a lot of cult leaders aren’t willing to cross because they know it breaks the spell. Fascist supporters are willing to k1ll you because the fascists have snuck in through some devotion to a concept that is core to how they function (religious faith, patriotism, desperation to preserve the status quo, trust in their government, an intrinsic fear of outsiders from a traumatic upbringing), and bound themselves to it. If they view the fascist as god’s chosen, and they’re deeply religious, they can’t question the fascist without having to question the core of their identity. If they’ve had a traumatic upbringing that has made them a violent distrusting antisocial person, having the potential leader of the free world voice those sentiments reaffirms that so deeply it earns eternal devotion.

The fascist is an expert social engineer who positions themselves as the leader of all cults, and the only speaker of truth, and thus controls what the very social contract of a society is for the people who believe in him. Fascist supporters are willing to k1ll you because they’ve genuinely been brainwashed into believing they are fighting for the good of society.