What We Talk About When We Talk About Fascism: How a Political Word Became a Moral Bludgeon

<![CDATA[Two strangers argue in an online chat room. It starts with taxes and border policy. It ends, as too many arguments do now, with one of them flinging the conversation-ending curse: fascist, Nazi, Hitler. No evidence. No definition. Just the sharp moral dismissal, argumentum ad Hitlerum fired like a flare.]]>