text: Motley:  Here's the top-rated definition from Google:  It's a generally accepted definition....except when right'wingers use it to describe liberals..
  fas·cism
  ˈfaSHˌizəm/
  noun
  noun: fascism; noun: Fascism; plural noun: Fascisms
  
      an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
      synonyms authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; More
      Nazism, rightism;  nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism;   jingoism, isolationism; neofascism, neo-Nazism
      "a film depicting the rise of fascism in the 1930s"
        (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice
  
   We also know from history that dictators and despots work very, very hard to control the media since it provides an accountability they find intrusive.  Trump seeks to discredit and delegitimate the media to invalidate the efforts to subject him to public accountability.  .walks and talks a bit like a duck? eh Gary