"... the Republican Party has become the new Fascist Party."

I've felt that myself for a number of years... though the Fascists of the 1930s pushed physical fitness, along with their dogmas of hate. Rush's only sport seems to be fork lifting, though the venom and lies that he spews are "worthy" of any Nazi propagandist.   

Unlike an open democracy that tends to embrace others, regimes - be they Fascist, Communist or whatever- need to create conflict and the US vs THEM mentality.

Many writers/commentators have expressed their inability to understand the Kamakazi pilots - young, usually well educated men who willingly sacrificed themselves for what they knew was a lost cause. I, too, found it bewildering... until a year or so ago when I saw a documentary that had footage of the youth training efforts done by the Japanese government in the 1920s & '30s. How similar to the Nazi Youth organizations and other youth groups that were indoctrinated young to hate. The conservative right wants to take over the American educational system so they can indoctrinate their belief system into most vulnerable segment of our culture. Scary as all ehll IMHO.