What continually amazes me is how much the tactics of the left in this country are beginning to resemble those of the NSDAP in late '20s/early '30s Germany. If any group in the US has taken up the "fascist" mantle, it's the radical left.
I have thought this for many years. It comes down to a lack of true training in history, we are about to make the same mistakes that the Germans, Italians and yes even the Fascist in France made in the 20's and 30's.
If you look at the platform of NAZIs and the progressive movement, they are pretty much identical except exchange Nationalist for Internationalist (or even no borders), Aryan for Multicultural (but still anti-Jew and anti-Evangelical (just like Hitler)). The NAZIs wanted to turn Poland into a vast natuaral wilderness for the Germans to visit and recreate in, much like the environmentalist of today. The NAZIs were really against capatilism (the real kind).
When I have gotten into debates with leftist on campus and point out that their views are very closely aligned with Der Frueher and mine are actually the exact opposite, they get very upset. Of course not all leftist are this extreme, but they are deceived in my opinion.