If you’ve been paying attention to public discourse lately, you’ve probably noticed something strange.

America is routinely described as a fascist state.  - Michael Smith

• Trump supporters are casually labeled Nazis.
• Immigration enforcement is compared to Kristallnacht. 
• Border detention facilities are called concentration camps....

These claims are no longer confined to fringe voices...
So why do people keep saying things that are so obviously false?

• The short answer is simple: exaggeration works. 
• The longer answer is more troubling...

Dita Sullivan - To argue that America isn’t fascist is to miss the point - it’s as ridiculous as arguing that Americans aren’t Martians.
The use of “fascist” as a pejorative was invented by the communists in the 1930s to discredit anyone who opposed them. 

It has no other meaning today.