The different fascist governments were... different, and acted more like an association than a unified ideology. Spain, Italy, and Japan had no intention to take over the World, Spain didn't even fully back Germany.
In the "good old days" being rightwing meant supporting the monarchy in opposition to emerging democratic movements. Monarchies, especially ones with a state church, had a lot in common with fascism.
The Classical Liberalism that much of American Conservatism is based on is a form of liberalism. This is why conservatism is so easily sidelined by RINOs and libertarians who put individualism on a pedestal at the expense of traditional communities.
Fascism might have originated in conversations among failed socialists and Marxists, but it quickly moved right in valuing the motherland at the expense of the individual.
A thoroughgoing traditional conservatism needs to navigate its way between the treacherous rocks of unbridled individualism and absolute statism.
Eh?
What is “unbridled individualism”?
Franco basically stabbed Hitler in the back.