When you have a political party that controls 95 percent of all media, suppresses freedom of speech, turns the free press into a politically biased propaganda machine, uses mainstream media outlets to interfere with presidential elections (by praising one candidate and heaping scorn on the other), punishes school children for using the wrong parts of speech, bans the president of the United States from its platforms while allowing the Taliban and Ayatollah Khamenei, imports millions upon millions of readymade democrats through a wide open southern border in an effort to establish a one-party authoritarian state, conducts a raid at the home of a political rival, weaponizes the judicial system and brings multiple indictments against the party's front running political opponent to prevent him from being elected, it is FASCISM regardless of what they call themselves.
In the 21st century, the words "fascist" and "fascism" are colloquialisms representing authoritarianism, political weaponization of law enforcement and heavy-handed censorship. Scholarly definitions no longer apply. Fascists, communists, Nazis, pseudo-progressive democrats -- peel off the label and they all look alike and employ the same anti-democratic tactics.