It's worth going a little into why this way of talking about art is fascist.
Fascists have a complicated relationship with freedom. On the one hand, they love to portray themselves as powerful, vigorous, tearing through opposition that seeks to hold them down and asserting themselves above all. On the other hand, they want to be told exactly what to do at all times. They want a cultural tradition enforced by violence that will guide every major decision of their lives down to their personal appearance and spiritual beliefs.
Are these contradictory? Yes, to some extent, though it's worth remembering that fascists always imagine themselves as the ones in charge of the oppressive political violence, not, as they are much more likely to be, the ones subjected to it. With that in mind, they fit together a lot better.
Now, apply that to art. On the one hand, art has to make you feel powerful and free. On the other hand, it can't actually come from a place of freedom. Artists can't be allowed to experiment and disagree. The artistic world must all speak with one aesthetic and one message, so that fascists can be led by it. It has to be their GPS, and it has to be shackled to a simple rhythm so that they are never confused by what it's telling them to do.
The ball here is only ever so slightly hidden, as this person pretends to be okay with any art being produced so long as we reach total agreement on what art is good. But that's also impossible in an actual free world. People not only make different art but value art differently, and fascists can't stand that. It scares and disgusts them, and they have to pretend that there is a universal instinct underneath that difference that's been corrupted somehow. There isn't.
Fascists like freedom as a catchphrase, but they hate it in practice, because freedom leads to variety and richness and exploration, and all of those things are against the fascist love of conformity, for movement in one single, lockstep forward motion. All of that leads them to this awful, sterile view of art, where art has to be always the same, always simple, and always flattering them for their fascism. If it was anything else, it would make them feel uncomfortable and they are too rigid and immature to feel uncomfortable.
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