Can a movement similar to fascism emerge in the US?

[badgenome]

sapphi_snake said:

badgenome said:

sapphi_snake said:

Still, I don't really think you can accuse any dictator that has ever existed of being a "liberal" in any shape or form.

I agree. It's long past time that we stopped conflating leftism with liberalism when the two have so little in common.

Liberalism and conservatism are in opposition FTR.

In the modern parlance, sure, but not really, no. If you are a conservative (that is, one who adheres to traditional institutions) in a (classically) liberal country, you may well be a liberal as well as a conservative. Today's "liberals", on the other hand, are just leftists by another name, and there is little liberal about them.