For the past several weeks, I’ve been overwhelmed by a thought that has been continually gnawing at me. While a number of commentators and pundits haphazardly slap the label of “fascist” on any political activity that they don’t like, I grew curious as to whether or not there was any validity to their use of the word, especially as a pejorative. This, of course, begs a very simple question: what exactly is fascism? And that’s where I hit a stumbling block. The problem with de