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No, that doesn't follow at all from what I said. The present, declining status quo is leading towards people losing faith in it, and in the present conditions, the far right are the only ones capable of offering the convincing appearance of an alternative. Not every status quo is declining, in some cases, it may be possible to address such decline, and in other cases, the left is able to present a realistic alternative to both the right and the status quo, and so the rise of fascism would no longer be an inevitability - if there are more doors than door #2, people may pick another door.
No, Fascism is not some random aberration, it is capitalism's rational solution the problem of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. When there is no room for the economy to grow, society is divided into an gradually shrinking in group and an ever expanding out group, by seizing the assets of the out group and feeding them into the in group, artificial growth can be maintained, for a time. A more permanent and viable solution is to nationalize developed industries, removing the profit motive once it is no longer useful, that is, socialism.
This is the fundamental difference in worldviews between liberals and leftists regarding the present situation. Liberals see Trump and the alt-right as this sort of bizarre fluke that seemingly came out of nowhere, and may well return to nowhere just as spontaneously. Leftists actually study the material reasons that caused them to come into political relevance, and thereby understand that even if you cut the weeds, the roots are still there and will regrow, that the material reasons that created them in the first place must be addressed.