It's very easy to be fooled by words. People (specially politicians) constantly misuse them in order to push some agenda they have in mind. If you want to find out who is a "fascist", you must look at how they behave toward others, what their implicit desires and intentions are, that sort of thing. You must watch and see how they use and abuse power. They may not fit your rigorous definition of the word "fascist" as lifted from the dictionary....but they may still be essentially fascist anyway.

And that's up to each one of us to decide.

I know what "fascist" means to me. It might mean something different to you. If it did, that wouldn't surprise me a bit...I know that people give words meanings according to their own present desires, not due to some ultimate standard of truth.

If your definition of "fascism" is a bit different from mine...fine...everybody's definition is probably a bit different, and no one here is the final authority on which is the best definition...nor is any dictionary. It's all just somebody's opinion, driven by the culture and political mythology they grew up in, the "good and evil" stereotypes they choose to obsess about, the things they're heard from others, and the ax they are presently grinding.