Edited sentence: Both King and Berlet claim to find "coded messages" in LaRouche's writings which contradict his continual statements of opposition to fascism.Formal claims for a LaRouche connection to fascism are limited to those of Berlet and King.In both cases the connection is of a very general nature where fascism is viewed as an essentially ideological phenomenon.While King's claims are based on private knowledge, Berlet's are based on the conflation of American populism with right-wing extremism and fascism first popularized by the eminent political historian, Richard Hofstadter