This is really an excellent and illuminating point garybuss!
"warlike policies, e.g. Theocratic War Strategy, and hatred of perceived enemies [often dissenting former group members]."
Most certainly, every other human and organization is identified to some degree with 'the ultimate enemy' satan.
"In most cases, fascists have come to power after a nation has suffered an economic collapse, a military defeat, or some other disaster."
Yes, and if you think about it this applies in the case of every individual, when are people indoctrinated ? usually (if not always) at some point of great crisis or need in their lives.
I don't see how anyone can (with correctly applied logic anyway) deny this similarity.
raven101