Whoa whoa whoa - covering a lot of ground a bit too quickly.

The American Revolution had "fascist elements"? I suppose everything must a bit, perhaps.... but what? Which founding father was promoting anything close to fascism? And how were the colonies of 1776 "capitalism in decay"? It was more about land concessions and successful capitalism that no longer felt obligated to pay a high percent to a faraway power when the the settlers were largely the ones who won the cross-Appalachian war with the French, etc.

In Germany, the dark days of hyperinflation were 10 years old when Hitler assumed power as Chancellor in 1933. Germany only suffered 2 bad years in the depression - much more benign than the US - and the big infrastructure projects Hitler implemented were a big success for Germany capitalism from 1933-1936 as can be seen from the GDP graph there. How a prosperous revived economy led to the worsening of fascism (including the break of Kristallnacht) after 1936 would contradict your thesis.

The Russian system has been oligarchic and mafia-like since the breakup of the Soviet Union and before, with strong nationalism/nostalgia for Soviet & Mother Russia such as from Zhurinovsky and of course Putin is well-entrenched, pre-dates any significant capitalist effort, and was always fueled by the disgruntlement of old people who were cared for very poorly but predictably under the Communist system.

EU nationalism has 4 major roots - those who see it as usurping their own national identity, those who obsess over immigration, those who've been continually bombarded with typically fallacious or misleading info about how bad the EU performs vs. typically corrupt and bloated local governments, and those people who've gotten left behind in the changing economy - often unrelated to or even ameliorated by EU actions, somewhat related to the effects of globalization and the way intra-country economies tend to agglomerate to the detriment of rural and marginalized regions. Pim Fortuyn was playing the "I want my money" anti-EU card a generation ago, though part of that was the Dutch government's ignoring some basics of gross inconvenience of its decisions on people who would be normally be tolerant and left-leaning (such as messing up traffic into Utrecht for 2-3 years). The Le Pens have been around forever working on a typical smaller percent of conservative discontents. The Greek situation was due to the inherent corruption of the society, reliance on only 2 industries, and how it tried to game EU membership over 30 years. The Nordics are relatively homogenous countries dealing with a bit more Muslim influence that's thrown off white assumptions. Italy is just dealing with the issues of its various Berlusconi, mafia and other corruption in slowly trying to adhere to EU norms. Other countries like Portugal, Spain and Ireland did get caught up in some short-term economic downturns that affected their planning and overall assumptions. Eastern European countries continue to struggle with their pre-wall crony corruption vs. the more transparent EU norms that have trouble sticking. None of this intuits a huge problem with capitalism, only some specific growing pains with various national situations. The EU's meddling in Syria, with subsequent refugee crisis and Merkel's humanitarian stance has brought immigration paranoia to a head, but even that's subsiding, and Erdogan's heavy-handed tactics of the last 2 months have ended any concern that Turkey might be a heavily compromised anchor member of the EU anytime before 2100 - ironically a good thing under the circumstance, but far from what I'd hoped for for Turkey 10 years ago.

The US passed its immigration shock 10 years ago, so fear of terrorists is substituted or blended. The EU actually has socialism (though many programs are very business-focused), whereas the right's panic over US socialism is way overblown considering the whittling away of any welfare, the rampant budget cutting of the last 10 years, how the budget has turned its focus to corporate/bank welfare & of course weapons plus homeland security, etc.

And living next to the microcosm of Berkeley, which has been a strange place for at least 50 years - what specifically does that tell us about what? All major campuses had the PhD student who freaked & became a weird campus fixture for years. Attracts various high and low segments of society.... Is it a bellweather, or simply a mix of almost everything that's happening elsewhere?

Think of him as a bad comedian with nothing left to lose - all that matters in the end is recognition from the folks in the peanut gallery.