"All of these characteristics of fascism are very broad but, yes, they can be applied to this administration; as well as every other administration of the last 230 years."

I would disagree that the components of fascism I posted are very broad. I think the authors of that information did a good job of trying to define the common aspects of a fascist state. Just to make sure you understand those items were compiled not using the United States as part of the sample. My personal feeling is that if we were only hitting certain points it would not be such a big deal. For us to be hitting all of them right on the head is another story.

I think you could take certain aspects and compare them to other periods in time when this country was under other administrations and find that we hit some on the head. During some points in our history we may have hit them all, say when this young nation was expanding westward and slaughtering Native Americans all along the path to progress. You'd have to say these were not moments to be proud of. Sort of the whole, if we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it thing...no?