Talk politics.

It's hardly stretching a point. These people endorse totalitarian policies and the police state in such cases as Joe Arpaio. The analogy is to the Mussolini-Antonescu type of fascism, not the type that people tend to think of. It's more insulting that way since Mussolini was the greatest legend in his own mind who ever existed. The Tea Party's favorite politicians tend to be rather authoritarian in practice, and I seldom hear them denouncing the police state and surveillance apparatus as such. And even fewer of them denounced it from 2005-8, during the first three years of its revelation.