I’m pretty sure that the original group of core creators were much less cryptofascist, and much more “Judge Dredd is awesome, and space knights are also awesome. And Heavy Metal magazine is awesome, as are heavy metal album covers, and punk is awesome, and football hooligans are dumb, and fetish nuns are hot. Let’s thow all that shit in a blender!”

The present core group… I have no clue, beyond “They’re people who think 40k is cool.”. But, yeah, some of them are prolly just a biiiiiiit too into the fascism?