Eh, for how fascistic the US is, they used the fasces for decades if not close to a hundred years before Mussolini ever got the idea, because it’s a classic Roman symbol with a good meaning that was sadly subverted and twisted by fascists.
Yeah it’s wild, almost as if the symbol had a different meaning before it got co-opted by an authoritarian populist European dictator…must just be an isolated coincidence, I mean it would be crazy if that happened twice lol