Fascists are typically a minority.

Fascism never is.

The number of times I hear this kind of garbage from my own mother is excruciatingly disgusting (and also my grandmother, aunt, cousins... and it used to be all of the men, too, but nature ensured that they're all unable to speak anymore). It's not just someone else's little old granny; it can even be your own.

Growing up, my Grandma always had Rush Limbaugh playing on the radio, FOX News on the TV, all that. She was also a woman who supported her (grand)kids even when they made decisions she didn't agree with. When my nudist libertarian aunt and uncle needed a place to stay for awhile, she hosted them at her house as long as they needed. When I was out as an atheist, and had a heated conversation about that with a particular aunt and broke down in tears after she left, it was my pillar-of-the-church Grandma that held me while I sobbed in her arms. I'll never forget that.

The thing that struck me, as I moved far enough left to see it, was this: you could always tell which opinions were hers, and which things she'd been told to believe by right-wing media, because the two were worlds apart. That's really what taught me the evil that conservative media does TO our elders, not just THROUGH them.

"Go with the flow" people tend to be nice.

Won't argue with anything.

If it's come before them by some state or commercially opaque path, ideally with smiley-people media promotion, they'll buy it.

There was a lot of them in my generation. Maybe still.