It can only be masked if you're already partial to the ideal of totalitarian one-party statism. Fascism was always honest that it was a movement of brutal thuggish SOBs.
Namely that http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar.
I do dispute his point. Wilson did nothing that Abraham Lincoln and John Adams didn't do. Unless we're willing to call the Washington Administration, the one that repressed the Whiskey Rebellion with a whiff of Grapeshot, the Adams Administration, the Lincoln and Jackson Administrations, and the Truman Administrations all fascist too.
Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin for just two of them. Henry Ford, Father Coughlin, the Silver Shirts, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton for other examples.
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Re: Some useful bits of this "analysis":
Date: 28/9/10 21:02 (UTC)Namely that http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar.
I do dispute his point. Wilson did nothing that Abraham Lincoln and John Adams didn't do. Unless we're willing to call the Washington Administration, the one that repressed the Whiskey Rebellion with a whiff of Grapeshot, the Adams Administration, the Lincoln and Jackson Administrations, and the Truman Administrations all fascist too.
Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin for just two of them. Henry Ford, Father Coughlin, the Silver Shirts, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton for other examples.