I don't think the shift to the right is indicative of fascism. Fascism was a very distinct and recognizable ideology (or ideologies) characterized by certain ideas about economics, culture, and society. Europeans on the left who've been brainwashed reflexively characterize as "fascist" anyone who questions socialist policies...
Rather, Americans have to understand that the effects of years of far-left policies are beginning to converge (socialism, amorality/anti-religion, legal and illegal immigration, challenges to national identity and history, zero economic growth, high unemployment rates, etc) and the general populations are beginning to recognize the potential catastrophes -- this really isn't about alarmist politics but reality.
When the "Syrian refugees" (they are NOT mostly Syrian, and very few "refugees" are helpless women and children) began to come, Europeans and those of us who are politically literate predicted immediately that terrorists would be embedded. Well, now we know that many of those ѕυιcιdє bombers and the plotters of the Paris terrorist attacks entered through Greece as "refugees". Countries that have double digit unemployment and sometimes collapsing social structures (Greece, for instance) are being asked to either absorb or handle millions of people who are completely undocuмented, unskilled, and maybe even illiterate in any language -- and that's nothing. We haven't even gone into non-existent birth rates, illegitimacy, unsustainable socialist spending, and welfare fraud, in addition to MANY other issues. It seems that some of the undocuмented Muslim children are being trafficked because they serve as golden tickets to European welfare benefits -- the men pretend to be their "fathers" or "uncles."
The Europeans have done this before: when France and Germany began to court North African and Turkish immigrants for employment in lower skilled fields in the fifties, they claimed that the immigrants would return to their countries, eventually. Of course, it never happened, and now both countries have some of the largest unassimilated and non-upwardly mobile Muslims populations in Europe.
The kicker: What is Merkel saying now about her new "refugees" (an estimated 50 percent of whom have officially disappeared into Europe with no docuмentation)? She is saying that their stays will be "temporary." It's extraordinary.