
Whereas the current administration has the benefit of context and history as mitigating factors for its current actions regarding the ICE crackdowns, the Democrats have no such benefit, so in the end it is they – not we – who are more rightly imputed with the designation of fascist.

Similar to Marx, Gentile used the terms fascism and socialism interchangeably in the manifesto. If you take an hour or two to read the original “Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals” and “The Doctrine of Fascism,” you’ll quickly conclude that references to Republicans being fascists are absurd.