I'm with Frank here.
I think the words 'authoritarian' covers a lot, Little Hawk, and 'fascist' should better not be used as a synonyme.

There must be some room left for verbal 'armament' if the times get tougher. A too early use of words like 'fascism' devaluates such words.

'Fascist tendencies' I have less problems with. However, I have a lot of problems with using the word 'fascist' for the communist regimes. That maybe comes from decades in which 'redfascists' (Rotfaschisten) was used in Germany only be the very conservatives as a word to denounce anyone from the left.

Wolfgang