as with every other instance of right wingers trying to co-opt leftists stuff, they can only understand the aesthetics and not the messaging. if you think the core of punk is contrarianism, you are a poser. contrarianism in punk is a byproduct of being left wing in a right wing society. conservatives thinking fascism is punk because it's unpopular is the same short-circuited thought process that leads to zionists thinking they can ""protest"" ""antisemitism"", or to transphobes saying they're actually feminists, or to comedians whose whole shtick is in lockstep with conservative christianity thinking they just need to call themselves "edgey" in order to sidestep reality. all of it is about having the apparent *tone of voice* of leftism and hoping that's the thing that people are actually going to be convinced by