Incorrect use of the word 'fascist' thread.

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Bush was probably the closest to a fascist that a relatively liberal democracy like ours can see without first undergoing significant structural warping.

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Seriously, fascism is used once correctly for every 100 times it is used incorrectly. Bush was hardly fascist, no US Presidnt was.

Bush's economic policy was very nearly the definition of corporatism: providing State financial aid to select businesses to give them a heads-up on their competitors.

No American President has been fascist. Many of them, however, fit certain of the criteria. Bush was probably the closest, with Reagan, Wilson, and McKinley not terribly far behind.

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There's a legitimate argument to be made that Bush's economic policies were fascist.

No such thing as fascist economic policies.

Corporatism.

Economic policies undertaken by some fascist governments in some circumstances, but hardly an inherently fascist economic policy.

Well, what is fascism but the policies of the Partito Nazionale Fascista?

There were also fascist governments in Germany, Spain, Japan, Romania...

Italy was the first, and the nearest to what most people associate with pure fascism.

Also, Japan wasn't fascist, arguably.

Nor Spain. Franco had the real fascists - Franco had the falangist hardcore under Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera largely incarcerated after World War II. It was more typically an authoritarian conservative State.