Because they don’t CALL themselves fascists. Using that word is an obvious bad thing and most people aren’t going to support it. So they don’t call themselves that. Even fucking Hitler was smart enough to co-opt naming that they knew people supported. The National SOCIALIST party.

The call themselves moderates, conservatives, liberals, etc. And because of that, people are fine with them coming in and sending bombs to genocide other nations, making speeches where immigrants are labeled as animals, making policies to jail poor people, etc. etc.

I made this comment elsewhere here but, it’s not going to ever be “choose between communism and fascism.” It’s going to be a spectrum of people that mostly do nother while the actual fascists, that don’t call themselves fascists, start killing communists, that DO call themselves communists. And most people will be ok with it for the same reasons they have always been ok with it. “Well they are extremists and should have been more reasonable.” “Well I’m not a communist so I will be ok.” …