Are Americans too dumb to recognize fascism?

Following up on the last post, yes they are because Dump is trying to institute a fascist State and is close to fully succeeding. But aside from the stupid ones are the liberal intelligentsia who know exactly what it is but refuse to call it out for what it is. From this article:

"There are three possibilities Americans don’t appear to know what fascism is, when it’s right before their eyes. They really are that stupid, they’re playing dumb, or they’re cowards. None of those, of course, is a good thing to be. [...] I’m pretty sure that a guy like Chris Hayes or all those New York Times columnists, not to mention everyone with an Ivy League Degree, knows exactly what fascism is. They’re not stupid. They’re something else, something worse, less moral, less worthy. They’re cowards."