in 1938, a New York Times reporter warned: “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labelled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’.”

Quote second hand sourced from:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/americanism-us-writers-imagine-fascist-future-fiction