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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
It seems to me that people tend to use the term not as a way to connect a politician's views to those of Hitler or Mussolini (textbook fascists), but as a slur against a political opponent.
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Not to go on too much of a threadjack, but this has been an argument of political scholars for quite a long time. George Orwell wrote an article on the subject in the 1940s:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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