…but somehow, it always seems to land in Europe. And this comment is one that I’ve always thought rung true:

Re: the misuse in current parlance of “fascism”. It is, of course, not Nazism. Fascism was an Italian phenomenon. I believe that the Left has sought to supplant “Nazi” with “fascist” because of the root words for Nazism: National Socialism. Since Stalin et al. practiced International Socialism, one can understand their sensitivity. National Socialism and International Socialism are not opposite ends of some political spectrum: they are subsets of Socialism. And when one counts up the dead, the distinction [between] National and International Socialism is one without a difference.