Something you may not know is the origin of the word fascist.

The fasci siciliani were peasants and farmers seeking basic rights and reforms before 1900. Fasci refered to the fact that a single straw is weak, but a bundle was strong.

The term was later ressurected in a nostalgic sense to make the new rising popularists look like men of the people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Siciliani

I don't know, but I'm certainly not sure that the Italian liberal-national party was liberal any more than the German national socialist party was socialist.

I am never totally sure if, when someone tries to use "liberal" as a perjorative, if they are talking about market liberalism or social liberalism. Same when people try to use <socialism, communism, capitalism, etc> because it seems that definitions have become so watered down, redefined, and loaded that it's almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion. Most of all, I see people that have a fundamental glaring hole in their own belief, or definition, of what "society" means.