Conservative Facism

Umberto Eco, 1995

There are quire a few "elements" of fascism floating around, most popularly those of Paxton and Eco.  I once noted these in an online comment and received a response which claimed they (apparently odious enough to indeed be considered slanderous) were basically a fiction made up by biased liberal scholars.  Interesting.  But what would a conservative definition of fascism be?

I found this review by Paxton himself of the infamous Goldberg book "Liberal Fascism".  It is quite good.
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Fascism is given an equally broad definition:  it is any use of state power to make the world better and to create a community.  This is not only too vague to mean much, it is simply wrong.  Authentic fascists have never wanted to make the whole world better.  As uncompromising nationalists, they want to make their own group stronger, purer, and more unified, and establish its domination over inferior groups, by force if necessary.  Goldberg’s real target is state activism, and matters would be much clearer if he had just left it at that. 
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Goldberg's book came out in 2008, and if political trends of the last decade (at the very least) are any indication it has aged even more poorly.  The American right has hewed ever closer to the Eco-Paxton elements.  Where as before they might have required a reading-between-the-lines of speeches and inference of actions to find a match, today the Republican party talking points align nearly perfectly.