One example of true fascism that comes to mind is when people were being locked inside their houses and losing their jobs for not taking the covid vaccine.
Seems more like naked authoritarianism than fascism, and if anything is the opposite brand of authoritian school of thought. Fascism was derived from a belief that a population united by fervent devotion to a centralized authority made them stronger than a fractious society with disparate interests. The fasces reflected this in roman authority, the italians modelled it after them. The covidian tyrants were more concerned with stamping out and punishing dissenters than trying to unite society or achieve a more powerful country. It was vindictive and petty and self-serving, opportunistic politicians and corporate profiteers and politicized hatemongers. They all served their own interests, and none of the ever said a goddamn thing about putting America first, thats for sure.
I've always been baffled at the degenerated discourse around fascism and nazism. You don't defeat a pernicious ideology by turning it into a generic label and boogeyman and stripping its reasoning away and boiling it down until it has no meaning. Its how Democrats see Nazis in their alphabet soup but not in Ukraine. Deconstruct an argument and show it to be wrong. Find someone who genuinely believes in racial purity and eugenics and explain to them that in a few short generations we'll be capable of edting genomes willy nilly and racial divides will be arbitrary.