That's because they correlate fascism with the right, not the left, where it belongs.
>>>>what is really shocking is... go visit the leftest websites... and they think the country is moving further right!
>>That’s because they correlate fascism with the right, not the left, where it belongs.
I believe it was Jonah Goldberg where I learned how this came about. A significant part of the US Left were Nazi-friendly before 1941 and the German invasion of the USSR. After all, the Nazis were allies of the Soviets until then, they had dismembered Poland together and split it between them. And much of our Left of that time were following the marching orders of the Soviets.
After the war, our Left needed to distance themselves from that history, and did it by labeling the Right as Fascist. None of them can give a logical answer as to how totalitarian National Socialists are of the Right in a US political sense. But, sadly, the big lie works.