Fascism arises when the looting elites try to distract the ordinary people with scapegoats...to retain or enhance their control of the people and the economy...
Lets do a "Fascist Hunt"...OK...
Who are the Obama scapegoats...?
Who are the Republican/WallStreet scapegoats...?
You will know the truth about them by their choice of scapegoats...
Obama scapegoats the banks, insurance companies and Wall Street... This is true....a hard row to hoe historically.
The Republicans scapegoat... Gays, Blacks, "liberated" Women, Educated people (aka "Stupid Intellectuals), immigrants, poor people and Progressives (now a/k/a "communists"...and "redistributionists")....
But the wealthy elites on the Right...control the media...with their money (aka "free speech")...
So Progessives are very limited in who they can scapegoat...without being tarred with starting : "Class Warfare"...
The Radical Right and elites have no such limitation...Big Lies are always pushed in the right wing media... The bigger the lie the better...it's always believed by the target audience...usually poor and nativist people in "fly over country"...
So the Right usually chooses the more defenseless scapegoats... like Gays, Intellectuals, Blacks, Gypsies, Socialists, Foreigners, Slavs and Jews...anyone who can be ganged up on by the native majority...who are the real dupes of the Fascists...
So who is more like Hitler...?
Obama or Beck...?