I would agree about the strong undercurrent of racism in the Balkans and much of Eastern Europe.

It's a different form of fascism that threatens in the USA...not one built so much around racism, but rather built around aggressive and irresponsible militarism, expansion of police powers and illegal surveillance of the public, curtailing of civil rights, justification of foreign aggression, torture of political prisoners...that sort of thing. That's also fascism. You don't have to have a replay of the racist policies that led to the Holocaust in order to breed fascism. Fascism does not require racism, it simply requires the criminal misuse of governmental authority on a national and international scale.