There is a whole generation of Americans who have covered, fought, or simply seen footage of various overseas fanatical and extremist groups riding technicals through contested territory with their asses and flags out. That generation understands exactly what it's seeing now 
I remember covering it a decade ago when Al Qaeda released an English-language magazine encouraging supporters to use trucks to commit spectacular mass-killings of infidels
Get a load of these psychopaths
"Blackshirts create the violence that the party invokes to mobilize state crackdowns" is the pumpkin spice latte of fascist praxis: so basic it never dies
