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Sure, the GOP absolutely twists definitions to suit their goals. You can see something similar with Democrats calling Republicans "fascists," so the problem is political theater.
That's a separate discussion from educating people on what the terms actually mean. We should be fighting misinformation on all fronts.
This take is stupidity.
When most of a party is literally pushing to overthrow the popular vote and instate an unelected autocrat, it’s ok to call it fascist.
Maybe, but it's applied so liberally (ha!) that it starts to lose its meaning. I worry that a significant portion of the population doesn't actually know what fascism means, so it's starting to lose its impact.
What else would you call it?
This isn’t a teenager calling dad a fascist for grounding them, the GOP is literally taking pages out of the historical fascism playbook.
I'm saying the term "fascist" is used for pretty much any policy the left doesn't like, such as abortion restrictions, spending cuts, etc.
Refusing to honor the results of an election is fascist. Passing policies that the left doesn't like isn't fascist. However, labeling conservatives as "fascist" is politically convenient, in much the same way as labeling progressives as "socialists" is politically convenient. I worry that the public doesn't actually understand what those terms mean, so calling out actual fascism or socialism is an issue.