Disagree. Liberals are bad, but fascists are explicitly not liberals. Fascism is socialism for dummies. It requires rejecting liberalism, socialism, or anything that has common rules to mediate power. It’s a state of nature without the pretense of a social contract.

Liberalism eventually collapses into fascism or socialism(rarely successfully), but that doesn’t make it fascism or socialism. Current China has been increasingly fascist recently, but they are still loosely bound by rules and norms that resemble liberalism at this point. Fascists like Trump use norms for brownie points while talking out of both sides of his mouth in the same breath. They are for nothing but spreading like a plague.

There is no definition of fascism that is exclusively that. Let’s take a list of key features defined by Umberto Eco, who was the expert on fascism and you can decide for yourself if Harris fits that:

• The cult of tradition
• The rejection of modernism
• The cult of action for action’s sake
• Disagreement is treason
• Fear of difference
• Appeal to social frustration
• The enemy is both strong and weak
• Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
• Contempt for the weak
• Everybody is educated to become a hero
• Machismo and weaponry
• Selective populism
• Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak