This is so funny and ridiculous on so many levels.
1) If it was fascism, then Trump's the fascist as Trump oversaw the response to Covid for the first year of the pandemic, no matter how much Republicans want to pretend he wasn't president in 2020.
2) Neither Trump in 2020 nor Biden from 2021 onwards arrested journalists, seized their devices, banned them from reporting, detained foreign students for speech, or threatened opposing party members with execution.
That's Trump now. The fascism is *now*. But Rand Paul wants you to talk and think about Fauci so you ignore the masked federal agents who are shooting American citizens in the street *right now*, but weren't shooting them for violating lockdowns or not wearing masks or whatever other imagined repression Paul thinks happened in 2020.
The closest thing to fascism the United States has seen was the COVID-19 pandemic response, instituted and vigorously mobilized by Left-wing groupthink.