Fascist is akin to racist to the idiots on the left. They throw it out and see if it will stick. They don’t even know the meaning of the word. A fascist is a leftist. Idiots.
Indeed. The underlying assumptions about the place and ability of ordinary men to do for themselves are the same.
The “right” and “left” which we are talking about in the 19th century emerged in a bubble entirely separate to classical liberalism, though in no small measure as a rejection of it. To even use their definition of the political spectrum as if it included all, as if what they mutually rejected was somehow between them rather than somewhere else entirely, is to deny the truth that both are an “other” to the likes of Smith and even different articles of the old order of things (though not all, like Machiavelli).