Strange, my earlier response has disappeared. Oh well. Try reading the progressive icons and intellectuals of the 30's and early 40's to understand where fascism is located as an ideology. Not the progressive version of a rewritten history to again make progressives/liberals appear to be something they are not. Fascism was much admired and respected by the progressives of the time, even FDR used fascist programs as models for many of his New Deal policies, especially those of Mussolini. By the way, Fascism is a term that was created by Mussolini and his faction in Italy in the 30's. Progressives did not ascribe fascism to the right until after the ovens were discovered in Poland and Germany. These are facts that I realize are not very complimentary to the progressive/liberal ideology but which is factual. Stalin, Pol Pot and others were also members of a left wing ideology. They also conducted themselves in ways that were not complimentary of left wing ideology. Those are the facts.