Is it just me, or are there also waaaaaay more "urbanism" type r*dditors here lately?
There's a natural synchronization between fascist sentiments and walkable infrastructure. Fascism is about the cohesiveness of the people and the state as one cooperative whole - "to the common good" would be Hitler's version of the idea.
Well, if you want people to be a cohesive whole, how do you get them to feel that way? That sense of profound brotherly love is developed via proximity and similarity, or it is not developed at all. In North America we have some of the similarity but none of the proximity in large part because of how we live; in alienated suburban infrastructures with no shared spaces, that confine individuals to bubbles. Walkable infrastructure would obviously be part of the fix for that, rebuilding a sense of identity grounded in your immediate surroundings rather than a rootless cosmopolitan identity that can move from California to Texas to Florida at any time - which is preferred by the liberal system that demands everything and everyone be fungible. Shared public spaces, small businesses, third places, shared transit, all of these things are both part of walkable infrastructure and critical for developing a sense of brotherly love between citizens.
There's no influx of anyone, people here have just been exposed to the arguments from both sides and many have now correctly identified that alienated suburbs are a vision of liberalism and cohesive walkable communities are a vision of fascism. Now we're just stuck with pure reactionaries who are not open to reason cleaving to suburbs because that's what you're used to, not because you've actually thought about whether the practical policies really match up with your alleged ideals.
Walkable communities are tradition. Pic related is a mid-20th-century novelty.