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The tendency to cast any deviation from contemporary left/liberal consensus as “crypto-fascism” or even outright “fascism” is among most stifling and absurd elements of the hysteria-induced moral panic that we’ve been beset with for the past several years
Orwell observed in 1944 that every political faction in England had accused the other of being "fascist" -- from communists to conservatives. "It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless," he wrote. Some things never change...
Fascism clearly exists to some extent but the over-reliance on hyperbolic, hysterical language has fostered laziness and stultification. A useful exercise is to try to describe phenomena you regard as potentially "fascist" without using the term; it obscures more than it reveals
