it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out
Of the western countries that fought fascism, most were flirting with it before the war. Certainly the UK, US and France had their fascist sympathizers. Germany just went a little too fast and the frog jumped out of the boiling water.
Hopefully it’ll go similarly this time: one nation goes full nazi and the rest pull the breaks.
It’s at least half a decade earlier on the enshittification timeline.
It is better than xitter right now (almost anything is) but the earlier you quit the black-box-algorithm-skinnerbox needle, the better.