Charles Krauthammer certainly has no standing to lecture anyone about fascism or demagoguery:
"Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." - Charles Krauthammer, "Disarm the Citizenry," The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19
He has never recanted nor apologized for this statement. Krauthammer may be a lot of things, but he is no friend of the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
Krauthammer comes out of a statist New Deal Democrat tradition as do the rest of the neocons. That’s why supported Scoop Jackson as a way station to Reagan. He only supported Reagan because he thought Reagan was morelikely than Carter to support policing the world.