Fascism doesn't require the threat of communism to exist, it simply requires capitalism to start showing signs of failure and then those who profit circle the wagons around their hoarded wealth and you're gonna get a fascism out of that if people don't stomp it down and replace capitalism so it can't happen again. They're the immune response of capitalism. The white power blood cells if you will.

Europeans have been shitting their pants about Muslims for decades now

someone in Germany stubs their toe

the polls:

i dont think fascism requires the presence of communism to show up. Neoliberalism is destroying everything, the anger and energy of the masses has to be directed somewhere and there are only a few possible ways for it to go. Fascism is the least bad for the bourgeoisie.

I think you're landing on why allusions to historical fascism or the interwar period are kind of a limiting framework to understanding these parties

Europe has been steadily losing its neocolonial grip on the Global South, so it is inevitable they turn to fascism in hopes of reasserting their position as colonial metropoly.

Does fascism really need an actual communist enemy now that they're all convinced that even the blandest liberals are literally Mao reborn though?

I'm thinking no. And that's kinda scary.

Because they think muslims are a subhuman horde destroying Western™ civilization, and it's all orchestrated by the Woke©®™ (usually they mean jewish communists controlling society secretly)

The Germanic brain pan is incapable of complex thought and so turns to simplistic tribalism instead of civilization

It's a peninsula at best