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Why did Futurism become a fascist movement?

I'm currently reading some of the early Futurist manifestoes, but these are from before figures like Moussolini became interested in the movement. What about futurism made it easy for fascism to embrace?
gpt
Note that an obsession with the future might foster a conclusion about certain *eugenic* steps that need to be taken in the present. Such a focus could be fearful of the effects on society of progressive ideologies that one sees as destructive of traditional values and national identity.

Hence the easy embrace of futurism by palingenetic ultranationalists (who worship a nation obsessed with rebirth).