Fascism is always at its core an anti-communist ideology. It was literally invented by liberals to crush communist movements spreading across Europe in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Jews and gay people were targeted because it was easiest to associate the Others (who have always been hated across Europe) with “Leninism” to tarnish the reputation of communism. Fascism was always about protecting the liberal capitalist order. The arch-liberal Churchill admitted this himself.

This was also what elevated centuries-old anti-Semitism to industrial scale genocide in Nazi Germany - the only way to crush communism is to exterminate the seeds that could sow the ideas of communism (Cultural Bolshevism) and corrupt the mind of the people in the first place.