see, the silicon valley strand of nerd fascism will never be popular because it's too fucking nerdy. it only works for techbros and techhoes who think they're better than everyone else because they have a stem degree and are paid a bunch of money.

whereas fascism is inherently exclusionary, you can pick which groups you want to exclude. maga fascism excludes nonwhite people and there's a lot of white people who like that. nerd fascism excludes anyone who isn't a silicon valley or nyc techbro and now you are left with not that many people tbh